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 Raynor Hoff and Julian Ashton. He trained in architecture but also turned his hand to bookbinding, etching, linocut and wood engraving. After moving to the UK in 1926, he became an important London modernist architect before the 1939-45 War. He published a major survey of modernist domestic architecture and a later volume on architectural glass.

Citations

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 548/1896’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 6768/1903’.

  • Raymond McGrath (1 January 1934), '20th Century Houses’.

  • Donal O’Donovan (1995), 'God’s Architect. A life of Raymond McGrath,’, Kilbride Books, unknown, Ireland.

  • Raymond McGrath and A.C. Front (1 January 1937), 'Glass in Architecture and Decoration’.

  • 'Raymond McGrath Prints 1979’, Deutscher catalogue.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Hutchinson of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria (2nd edition).

  • Saunders, David, 'They all went overseas’, in Architecture Australia (1970/1979?).

  • Kerr, Joan, Information suourced from.

  • Raymond McGrath, catalogue of graphic works pre-1930 by Josef Lebovic Gallery, April 2012, List no.162, 2013.