End pattern paper from Contact Book No. 10, designed by Tirzah Swanzy
Reading through a fascinating Contact Book, this Number 10 from the shortlived postwar series, and the end papers caught my eye. As it should have done. This was designed by Tirzah Swanzy, an artist who was one of the Great Bardfield Group based in Essex during the mid-20th Century. Born in 1908 she was an accomplished artist and designer who married Eric Ravilious. Eric was so sadly lost, missing presumed dead, as a war artist in 1942. Tirzah subsequently remarried to Henry Swanzy in 1944. Sadly in 1948 she was diagnosed with a reocurrance of cancer and she died of the disease in 1951.
End pattern paper from Contact Book No. 10, designed by Tirzah Swanzy
Reading through a fascinating Contact Book, this Number 10 from the shortlived postwar series, and the end papers caught my eye. As it should have done. This was designed by Tirzah Swanzy, an artist who was one of the Great Bardfield Group based in Essex during the mid-20th Century. Born in 1908 she was an accomplished artist and designer who married Eric Ravilious. Eric was so sadly lost, missing presumed dead, as a war artist in 1942. Tirzah subsequently remarried to Henry Swanzy in 1944. Sadly in 1948 she was diagnosed with a reocurrance of cancer and she died of the disease in 1951.