- Robert Gibbings
Robert Gibbings (born in
Cork ,Ireland 23 March 1889 - diedOxford 19 January 1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood carver and engraver and for his books on travel and natural history.Life
He was born in Cork into a middle-class family. His father was a
Church of Ireland minister. His mother was the daughter of Robert Day, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and president of The Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.He studied medicine for three years at
University College Cork before deciding to persuade his parents to allow him to take up art. He studied under the painter Harry Scully in Cork and later at theSlade School of Art and theCentral School of Art .During the First World War he served in the
Royal Munster Fusiliers and was wounded atGallipoli .He married Moira Pennefather, from
Tipperary , with whom he had four children.His principal writings and drawings were of his native Cork, the
Thames Valley near London and parts ofPolynesia , which he visited several times.Gibbings was the proprietor of the
Golden Cockerel Press from 1924 until 1933, when he sold it to a fellow native of Cork,Christopher Sandford .Works
*"Coming Down the Seine"
*"Sweet Thames Run Softly"
*"Coming down the Wye"
*"Trumpets from Montparnasse" (1955)
*"The Seventh Man"
*"A True Tale of Love in Tonga"
*"Blue Angels and Whales"
*"Sweet Thames Run Softly"
*"Till I End My Song"
*"Over the Reefs"
*"Coconut Island"
*"John Graham, Convict"
*"Lovely is the Lee" (1945)
*"Sweet Cork of Thee" (1952)External links
*http://www.cambridgeprints.com/artists/g/GIBBINGS.HTML
References
*Martin J Andrews "The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings" Primrose Hill Press (2003) ISBN 1901648311
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