Illustration to Erinore
Watercolour Refer DAAO for biographical information Raymond McGrath (1903-1977) trained at Sydney University (B. Arch 1926) ...Raymond McGrath was intensively creative in a range of media outside of his architecture and each possessed celebrated skills in drawing, water-based media and print-making. Raymond McGrath studied painting and drawing in Sydney and was active in graphic design and private press book printing early in his career. ... McGrath had begun his Sydney University training in the arts and became an acknowledged poet, editor and short-story writer before his graduation. During his undergraduate era, he also published a collection of verse, Seven Songs of Meadow Lane, that he personally illustrated, printed and bound. His private press work has not been fully studied. He continued to write poetry throughout his lifetime. He studied art with Julian Ashton, modelling with Rayner Hoff, bookbinding with Walter Taylor (c.1921-26) and made etchings from c.1921. Inspired by Tyrell’s 1923 exhibition of relief prints, he began doing linocuts in 1923 which were soon supplanted by wood engravings from 1924, notably The Seven Songs of Meadow Lane (J.T. Kirtley, Sydney 1924), written and illus. with b/w engravings by McGrath. In 1926 he travelled to England, studied at Westminster School of Art, London, and became an important modernist architect, writer and industrial designer in the UK. Official British war artist during WWII (mostly doing drawings of aircraft production). He died in Dublin on 23 December 1977. The biography by Donal O’Donovan, God’s Architect. A life of Raymond McGrath, Kilbride Books, 1995 is the most complete treatment of his life to date.
20 x 29 cm
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‘Illustration to Erinore’, an Australian legend of the fairies.
A similar version of this is in “Dreams of the Orient and
Other Poems”. Circa 1921
Item #4840
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