Tirzah Garwood

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Eileen Lucy "Tirzah" Garwood (born April 11, 1908 in Gillingham , Kent , † March 27, 1951 in Copford , Essex ) was a British visual artist who became known as a printmaker and woodcutter . She was a member of the Great Bardfield Artists.

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Garwood was born the third of five children. Her father Frederick Scott Garwood (1872–1944) was an officer in the Royal Engineers . Her nickname "Tirzah" was given to her by her siblings and refers to the biblical place Tirzah . It is probably a falsification of her grandmother's reference to "Little Tertia", which means that she is the third child. The family followed their father to Army posts in Croydon , Littlehampton and Eastbourne .

Garwood was trained from 1925 to 1924 at the West Hill School in Eastbourne and from 1925 attended the Eastbourne School of Art with Reeves Fawkes and Oliver Senior. She then trained as a wood engraver with Eric Ravilious . In 1928 she went to Kensington . She later studied at the Central School of Art . She was married to Eric Ravilious, who was best known as a watercolor painter, from 1930 until his death in 1942. They had three children together, including the photographer James Ravilious (1939-1999).

One of her early woodcuts was featured in the Society of Wood Engravers' annual exhibition in 1927, when she began exhibiting, and was praised by the English newspaper The Times . She took on orders for the Kynoch Press and the BBC , for which she made a new representation of her coat of arms. Garwood illustrated Granville Bantock's oratorio The Pilgrim's Progress for the BBC in 1928 , which he wrote for the BBC. In 1929 and 1930 she again took part in the annual exhibitions of the Society of Wood Engravers, which were held at the Redfern Gallery in London. There followed a participation in 1948 in the exhibition Pictures for Schools of the Tate Gallery , again in 1949 under the same title in the Whitechapel Art Gallery .

She wrote an autobiography in 1942 that was posthumously edited by her daughter Anne in 2012 and published by the Fleece Press. The Fry Art Gallery showed a special exhibition on the occasion of the publication.

One year after her death, the Tirzah Garwood Memorial Exhibition took place in the Towner Art Gallery in 1952 , and the Arts Council held a solo show in London that same year. The Towner Art Gallery showed them again in 1987, Towner owns two paintings from 1950, including Orchid Hunter in Brazil . Works are also owned by the Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London has several marbled papers in its print and graphic collection .

Exhibitions

  • 1927, 1929, 1930 Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers, London (G)
  • 1948 Pictures for Schools , Tate Gallery, London (G)
  • 1949 Pictures for Schools , Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (G)
  • 1952 Tirzah Garwood Memorial Exhibition , Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (E)
  • 1952 Arts Council Exhibition, London (E), with catalog brochure
  • 1987 Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (E)

Fonts

  • Long live Great Bardfield & love to you all. Tirzah Garwood: her autobiography, 1908–43. Edited, and with biographical notes on the period 1943–51, by Anne Ulmann. Fleece Press, Upper Denby, Huddersfield 2012, ISBN 978-0-948375-95-8 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olive Cook ,: Matrix - The Art of Tirzah Garwood. In: Matrix 10. 1990, accessed on June 30, 2019 (English).
  2. ↑ Garwood [married names Ravilious, Swanzy], Eileen Lucy [known as Tirzah] (1908–1951), wood engraver and artist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  3. ^ Richard Moss: Long Live Great Bardfield: The Fry Art Gallery celebrates the life, loves and art of Tirzah Garwood. In: org.uk. www.culture24.org.uk, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Tirzah Garwood. In: artuk.org. Art UK , accessed June 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Decorative paper | Garwood, Tirzah. In: collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Garwood, Tirzah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garwood, Eileen Lucy (full name); Ravilious, Tirzah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Gillingham (Kent)
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1951
Place of death Copford , Essex