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 career as an architect, he also turned his hand to bookbinding, etching, linocut and wood engraving. After moving to the UK in 1926, he became an important modernist architect with a substantial reputation before the 1939-45 War.
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associate of
Rayner Hoff
1894
Artist (Sculptor)
associate of
Julian Ashton
Artist
associate of
Walter Taylor
Other occupation
child of
née Sorrell Edith M. McGrath
Other occupation
child of
Herbert E. McGrath
Other occupation
associate of
Arthur N. Baldwinson
1908
Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect), Architect (Printmaker)
Herbert Read
Other occupation
McGrath's work is illustrated in Read's celebrated work, Art and Industry
Serge Chermayeff
Architect
Christopher Tunnard
Architect

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References [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Marriage Records : 548/1896'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Birth Records : 6768/1903'.>, <ExternalResource: Raymond McGrath (1 January 1934), '20th Century Houses'.>, <ExternalResource: Donal O'Donovan (1995), 'God’s Architect. A life of Raymond McGrath,', Kilbride Books, unknown, Ireland.>, <ExternalResource: Raymond McGrath and A.C. Front (1 January 1937), 'Glass in Architecture and Decoration'.>, <ExternalResource: 'Raymond McGrath Prints 1979', Deutscher catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art', Hutchinson of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria (2nd edition).>, <ExternalResource: Saunders, David, 'They all went overseas', in Architecture Australia (1970/1979?).>, <ExternalResource: Kerr, Joan, Information suourced from.>] [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Marriage Records : 548/1896'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Birth Records : 6768/1903'.>, <ExternalResource: Raymond McGrath (1 January 1934), '20th Century Houses'.>, <ExternalResource: Donal O'Donovan (1995), 'God’s Architect. A life of Raymond McGrath,', Kilbride Books, unknown, Ireland.>, <ExternalResource: Raymond McGrath and A.C. Front (1 January 1937), 'Glass in Architecture and Decoration'.>]