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Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat (née Darwin; 26 August 1885 – 11 February 1957), was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her memoir Period Piece was published in 1952.
Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) The granddaughter of naturalist Charles Darwin, Gwen Raverat was one of the first women to insist on and achieve professional training as an artist. She attended the Slade School in 1908, quickly developing her own painterly style of wood-engraving. She was a highly individual and intensely personal artist largely ...
Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was one of England's greatest wood-engravers and a leading figure in the revival of the art form in the 20th Century. She was the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, one of Rupert Brooke's Neo-Pagans and Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury group. Her best-selling memoir, Period Piece is still in print (68 years after its first ...
Gwendolen Raverat (1885–1957) Chippenham Museum. British graphic artist, theatre designer, painter, and writer, born in Cambridge, the daughter of Sir George Darwin, professor of astronomy, and granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She studied at the *Slade School, 1908–11, but was mainly self-taught in wood engraving, which was her primary ...
Timeline of Gwen Raverat's Life. 1885 Gwendolen Mary Darwin born at Newnham Grange in Cambridge, the eldest child of George, son of Charles Darwin, and Maud (nee Du Puy) from Philadelphia. 1886-1891 Early childhood spent largely in the company of the Darwin tribe of cousins who lived in nearby large houses – Wychfield, The Grove and The ...
Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat (née Darwin; 26 August 1885 – 11 February 1957), was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her memoir Period Piece was published in 1952. ID: 532958. Information from Wikipedia, made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. See full ...
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Gwen Raverat's work as an artist featured regularly in Time and Tide from the late 1920s and into the next decade, and in 1929 she became the magazine’s regular art critic. Gwen Raverat, self portrait, 1910. Reproduced by kind permission of the Gwen Raverat Archive. My grandmother Gwen Raverat, née Gwendolen Mary Darwin, was born on August ...
