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There are always hundreds of Eric Ravilious items for sale on Ebay auctions - particularly the Wedgwood ceramics.

      Eric Ravilious books on Amazon.co.uk
Virtually all the significant publications are available via Amazon.

Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious: Design
An excellent introduction to the work of two British designers Edward Bawden (1903-1989) and Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). This fascinating book illustrates every aspect of their creativity, featuring designs for wallpaper, posters, book jackets, trade cards and Wedgwood ceramics, to name but a few. "Design" opens with an informed and engaging essay by Peyton Skipwith, who, from the late 1960s, acted as Edward Bawden's principal dealer.

Away We Go! Advertising London's Transport
In the 1920s and 30s, London Transport commissioned popular artists to produce designs for the Underground and Green Line coaches. This book looks at the work of two leading artists from the period: Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden. Focusing on the stunning designs they produced for press advertising, this book includes two informative essays by Art Historian Alan Powers and Head Curator of London's Transport Museum, Oliver Green.

Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Netherlandic winter paintings of the Renaissance, German Romantic landscapes, Scandinavian Biedermeyer and twentieth-century topographical painting and printmaking. The work of artists Andy Goldsworthy, Eric Ravilious and Ian Hamilton Finlay are examined, as well as the work of literary figures including W. H. Auden, Sean O'Brien and John Buchan. He examines a bewildering diversity of mythologies and imaginings of north, including The Snow Queen; Scandinavian Sagas; ghost-stories; Moomintrolls, Arctic exploration; the fictitious snowy kingdoms of Zembla and Naboland; Nabokov's nostalgias; Baltic midsummer; rooms in winter light; compasses and star-stones; hoar-frost; ice and glass.

Ravilious and Wedgwood: The Complete Wedgwood Designs of Eric Ravilious.

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) died at the age of 39, when the Air Sea Rescue mission, which he was accompanying in his capacity as Official War Artist, failed to return to its base in Iceland. In his short working life he figured in a group of exceptionally gifted artists, including Edward Bawden and John Nash, who came to prominence just before World War II. He achieved considerable success with his design work in a variety of fields, and is acknowledged to be one of the greatest English wood-engravers. Ravilious, however, felt that his most serious work was landscape painting in watercolour. Surprisingly, this material was generally neglected until the publication of "The England of Eric Ravilious", a study hailed on publication as "an irresistible book about a still underrated artist". This re-issue marks the centenary of the artist's birth. In his powerful yet exquisite watercolours, Ravilious's England reveals itself as a country of rolling downland, quiet countryside, tranquil gardens, greenhouses and farmhouse interiors, the calm and beauty of which are threatened by the gathering storm of an imminent war.

Eric Ravilious in Context

Eric Ravilious was among the most foremost of English artists to emerge between the wars - and one of the great original wood engravers. His body of work was wide-ranging and multi-faceted; in his relatively short career after he left the Royal College of Art he produced an extraordinary amount of work - murals, water-colours, wood engravings, lithographs, pottery designs for Wedgwood. As successful and enterprising as he was in these diverse fields, it was in the field of landscape painting in water-colour that Ravilious excelled. His tragic and untimely death in 1942, while on service as an Official War Artist, meant that his great promise was never fulfilled and it has been left to Helen Binyon to present this study of the artist to a world largely unaware of his presence. The author knew Ravilious well from their student days and has been able to draw upon her intimate knowledge of this vivid and exciting' artist to make this a compelling account of a genius. "Memoir of an Artist" is introduced by Richard Morphet, Deputy Keeper of Modern Art at the Tate Gallery, who places Ravilious in the context of modern-day appreciation of his work and describes the close relationship between Eric Ravilious and Helen Binyon, which led her to write this book, now reprinted by The Lutterworth Press in paperback. The book is illustrated with examples of Ravilious's work from his student days to his powerfully realised drawings and paintings as an Official War Artist.

Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities

Rennies
Specialists in British art & design of the 20th Century.

Lund Humphries
Lund Humphries have reprinted their book 'The England of Eric Ravilious' by Freda Constable.

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