Eric Ravilious
English painter
Died when: 39 years 42 days (469 months)Star Sign: Leo
Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver.He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity.
He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.
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