Rothenstein purchased this watercolour by Eric Ravilious for the collection in 1936. Ravilious was also a student at the Royal College of Art and was tutored by Paul Nash. This watercolour was inspired by a greenhouse on the Firle estate near Furlongs, Lewes, Sussex.
Cucumber House, about 1935, watercolour by Eric Ravilious (1903-1942).
An interior of an orderly greenhouse with wrought iron spandrels at its apex. Rows of cucumber plants growing in wooden troughs are trained up the wall to left of composition and up fine trellis to right.
Ravilious produced a series of greenhouse watercolours inspired by the greenhouse on the Firle estate near Furlongs, Lewes, Sussex. This watercolour is a good example of Ravilious's graphic and architectural style that would later win him commissions as a war artist and designer.
Ravilious’s influence continued to be felt after his untimely death. His work inspired the design of the Festival of Britain and contributed to the new way that artists sought to represent England and Englishness after the Second World War.
There are these inscriptions on the exhibit:
ullie House Museum and Art Gallery collection, purchased by Sir William Rothenstein 1936
Image © Estate of Eric Ravilious. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2010.
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