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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. [1] . Her memoir Period Piece was published in 1952. Biography. Newnham Grange, Raverat's childhood home, now part of Darwin College.
- 1911–1951
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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.
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 ...
Gwen Raverat - Time And Tide. 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.
Gwen, with great fortitude, nursed her husband through the traumatic last stages of his illness to his death in 1925. Afterwards, she returned to England and from 1929 lived in Harlton, just six miles from Cambridge. From there she could resume her Cambridge connections, while continuing to work.
5 giorni fa · 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. Gwen Darwin was born in Cambridge in 1885; the granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin and the first cousin of the poet Frances Cornford. She married the French painter, Jacques Raverat, in 1911 and they were active in the Bloomsbury Group and Rupert Brooke’s Neo-Pagan group until they moved to the south of France.
