Quatrefoil and Swan and Grass Wallpapers, designed by Edward Bawden The Great Bardfield artists both undertook commissions to design patterned wallpapers, and liked to decorate their homes with them. Examples of these wallpapers feature prominently in our forthcoming...
Alternative Idea for British Rural Architecture Stamps, Ink and Pencil on Paper 1970. In February 1969 the Royal Mail’s Stamp Advisory Committee discussed the stamp programme for 1970. It was felt that the British architecture series started with Cathedrals in May...
Brick House, Great Bardfield Watercolour PC350, 1955 Purchased by the Fry Gallery in 1995 with grant aid from the National Art Collections Fund To mark the arrival of the first of this winter’s snow in North West Essex, we are featuring this wintry scene from...
The Chapel, Hartest, Mixed media PC69 on loan from a private collector, 1947 In the years after her husband Eric Ravilious’s death, Tirzah Garwood turned particularly to making models of local schools, cottages and chapels from cardboard, paper and even...
We have a huge variety of paintings, prints, ceramics, sculpture, textile and jewellery at this year’s Fry Gallery Annual Sale. Here is a small selection of pictorial highlights from Rosie Philips, Michael Rothenstein, Edward Bawden and Mark Hearld. There are...
The Potato Field, Watercolour PC3037 on loan from a private collector Only four weeks left to enjoy a number of Eric Ravilious’s delicate watercolours, along with works by fellow artists from Great Bardfield, before the Fry closes for the season at the end of...
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