Eric Saunders

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
According to Marion Mahony Griffin, the botanical drawings of Eric Saunders demonstrate the "ever recurring voluptuous feminine forms explicit in nature".
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Eric Saunders
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Other Occupation
  • illustrator
Active Period
  • c.1930- c.1941
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

portrait painter and botanical artist. Marion Mahony Griffin wrote: “But the weird enchantment one feels [for the Australian flora] arises perhaps more from the shapes of the trunk and the branches and the connections with the ground. They flow and swell and contract, twist and turn in ways that are so well illustrated in the drawings of Mr Eric Saunders, which show the ever recurring voluptuous feminine forms”, (source unknown).

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Walter Burley Griffin
1876
Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
associate of
Marion Mahony Griffin
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Collections
Citations:
  • Art prizes database, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Art Gallery of New South Wales)