Artist     Raymond Teague Cowern
Title      Anticoi Corrado, Above the Waterfall
Date      1970's
object    Print
Media    etching
Size       18.8 x 15.6 cm
Ref          550

Purchased in the 114th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1966

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Anticoi Corrado, Above the Waterfall
Born in 1913, Raymond Cowern was a painter in tempera and watercolour, and an etcher who studied at Central School of Art, Birmingham and the Royal College of Art, London, then at the British School in Rome from 1937-39. He is best known for his etchings, especially those made of Egyptian subjects in the 1930s. He became member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1947, producing artwork for the LNER Post-War series and settled in Brighton for many years.

He died in 1986 and an exhibition of his work was held at the Royal Academy in 2004. An exhibition in Birmingham in 2006 marked the acquisition of over 150 of his pieces for the city. An earlier exhibition of his work was shown in the city in 1988 as ‘Two Birmingham painter-etchers: R.T. Cowern (1913-1986) and H.A. Freeth (1912-1986) ; an exhibition of etchings and drawings with a catalogue essay by Stephen Wildman.

A number of works in public collections in the UK, including this print from the RWA Collection, are drawn from his Italian travels. Highly detailed etchings of architectural and rural subjects were a specialism of the artist, exemplified in a suite of etchings owned by the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

Further reading:
Kenneth Guichard, British Etchers 1850 -1940, Robin Garton, London, 1977

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