The Tyke Fine Art Gallery Too The Groovy Bardfield Artists

We visited Saffron Walden of late in addition to discovered the Fry Art Gallery which is opened upwards from Apr to the halt of Oct each year. 

The gallery provides a abode to artwork past times artists known equally the Great Bardfield Artists who are likewise the dependent champaign of a recent publication - Bawden, Ravilious in addition to the Artists of Great Bardfield. 

The mass of the exhibition | V&A Publications

On display at the Museum are some of the paintings, prints, wallpapers, books, fabrics in addition to ceramics created past times the Great Bardfield fine art community betwixt 1930 in addition to 1970. 

At acquaint at that topographic point are two exhibitions - closing real shortly (25th October) - which cover:

• From Eric Ravilious To Grayson Perry - to grade the 30th anniversary of the opening display of the North-West Essex Collection inward the Fry Art Gallery
• The Art Of Acquisition - The Great Bardfield Artists' Houses - almost the interior of the houses

Watercolour paintings past times Edward Bawden in addition to Eric Ravilious

Eric Ravilious Submarine Series
Lithographs - done patch he was working equally a state of war artist

Woodcuts past times Eric Ravilious

Ceramics amongst graphics past times Eric Ravilious

I convey a item liking for those artists who tape the places where they alive in addition to it's fascinating to encounter them recording life inward an Essex village.

You tin encounter some of the images inward the exhibition amend inward other articles almost the exhibitions which include:

• The alone fine art is Essex by Martin Gayford | The Spectator
• Great Bardfield Artists eclebrated inward novel exhibition: The Art of Acquisition | Country Living
• Fry Art Gallery explores art, decor in addition to houses of the Great Bardfield Artists | Culture 24

Great Bardfield

An Illustration of where everybody lived inward the 1950s
- amongst pencil annotations regarding those who had likewise lived at that topographic point inward before times

Great Bardfield is a hamlet inward Essex in addition to became a identify where a publish of figurative artists made their homes. 

Between the 1930s in addition to the 1950s, the artists living at that topographic point included Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious, equally good equally  John Aldridge RA, George Chapman, Stanley Clifford-Smith, Audrey Cruddas, Walter Hoyle, Sheila Robinson, Michael Rothenstein, Kenneth Rowntree in addition to Marianne Straub.

The Bardfield artists exhibited inward the large 'open house' shows inward the isolated hamlet inward 1954, 1955 in addition to 1958. These shows attracted thousands of visitors in addition to made the fine art community famous thank you lot to national press coverage in addition to several one-off in addition to touring shows inward the slow 1950sTaechers Pack

Online resources

The Trustees convey made skillful utilization of their website to render access to other aspects of the operate of the artists

For example:

• the scrapbooks of Edward Bawden in addition to Eric Ravilious
• a digital archive of artworks inward the collection - organised past times the type of medium. Here, for example, are links to:
• the linocuts
• the watercolours and 
• the woodcuts
• a teachers pack for main schoolhouse teachers

An Appeal

The Trustees immediately convey the chance to purchase the freehold of the edifice - which help save this of import agency of seeing an of import purpose of the flush of British art.

There's a link to their donation page on the abode page of the website.

Visiting:

The Gallery is opened upwards from the outset sun inward Apr to in conclusion sun inward Oct annually:

• Monday in addition to Midweek : Closed
• Tuesday, Th in addition to Friday: 2.00pm - 5.00pm
• Saturday : 11.00am - 5.00pm
• Sunday : 2.15pm - 5.00pm 

Also Open 2.15pm to 5pm on Bank Holidays

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