Raymond McGrath b. 7 March 1903

Also known as Raymond H. McGrath
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Painter)
Raymond McGrath studied under some of the most well known names in Australian art, including Raynor Hoff and Julian Ashton. Despite his primary career as an architect, he turned his hand to bookbinding, etching, linocut and wood engraving. After moving to the UK in 1926, he became an important modernist architect and worked as an official war artist during WWII. He never returned to Australia and
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painter, architect and printmaker, was born in Sydney 7 March 1903. He studied Architecture at the University of Sydney in 1921-26, art with Julian Ashton, modelling with Rayner Hoff, bookbinding with Walter Taylor (c.1921-26) and made etchings from c.1921. Inspired by Tyrell’s 1923 exhibition of relief prints, he began doing linocuts in 1923 which were soon supplanted by wood engravings from 1924, notably The Seven Songs of Meadow Lane (J.T. Kirtley, Sydney 1924), written and illus. with b/w engravings by McGrath. In 1926 he travelled to England, studied at Westminster School of Art, London, and became an important modernist architect in the UK. Official war artist during WWII (mostly doing drawings of aircraft production). He died in Dublin on 23 December 1977.

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1996
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  • Taylor, Walter (associate of)
  • McGrath, Edith M. (child of)
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  • Ashton, Julian (associate of)
  • Taylor, Walter (associate of)