Raymond Ray-Jones was an English painter and etcher.
11 Facts About Raymond Ray-Jones
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Raymond Ray-Jones became an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers on 17 March 1914.
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Raymond Ray-Jones served during the First World War as a clerk or ostler in the Royal Horse Artillery at Woolwich.
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Raymond Ray-Jones was an early member of the Society of Graphic Art.
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Raymond Ray-Jones married Pearce's sister, Effie Irene Pearce, on 12 February 1926, and they lived at Woodham Walter in Essex.
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Raymond Ray-Jones had little sympathy with the work of modern artists such as Picasso.
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Raymond Ray-Jones was so concerned with detail and accuracy that his body of work was small.
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In February 2017 a more complete biography of Raymond was published as The Siren, Issue No 12, February 2017, by David Tovey.
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Raymond Ray-Jones was buried in the old churchyard at Lelant Church on 2 March 1942 in an unmarked unrecorded grave due to suicide.
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Works by Raymond Ray-Jones have been acquired by the British Museum; the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington; Trinity College, Cambridge; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Contemporary Art Society; City Art Gallery, Manchester; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Ipswich Art Gallery, etc.
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Raymond Ray-Jones exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, the Society of Graphic Art; New English Art Club, Bristol, Liverpool etc.