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While staying at
Furlongs with Peggy Angus in 1934, Ravilious was both disturbed and
excited by the sight of a recently opened cement works on the Sussex
downs.
Helen Binyon,
Ravilious’s biographer, wrote, ‘Peggy took Eric up along a path,
from near which they could look down on the whiteness of the exposed
chalk walls, of the whitened buildings and engines, and the nearby
trees and hedges all covered with a fine white powder.
Eric was excited by the strangeness of it all – a moon
landscape’.
These paintings
extended his theme of ‘machines in a landscape’, several of
which were exhibited beside the cement works pictures in his one-man
exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery in 1936, of which the critic Jan
Gordon wrote, ‘Mr Ravilious’s pictures are at once placid
descriptions and keen criticisms.’
'Furlongs' and Greenhouses
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