SELECTED GROUPS

The December Selected Group 2009 - KENNETH ROWNTREE (1915-1997)

Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997) 

Trained at the Ruskin Drawing School and The Slade, Kenneth Rowntree was a painter, illustrator (A Prospect of Wales, for King Penguin), designer (see his designs for book jackets below) and muralist (his work for the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion at Festival of Britain and the Barclay School are notable examples). During the war he was employed by Lord Clarke on the Recording Britain project, and was associated with the group of artists including Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious that formed around the village of Great Bardfield in Essex. He taught mural painting at the Royal College of art throughout the 1950s and was Professor of Fine Art at Newcastle University from 1960 – 1980.

All works comes from the artist’s estate.


1. Book jacket design for Pilot Books Autumn 1947.
Ink and watercolour.
Signed and inscribed, ‘by Tuesday’.
12” x 8.5”
£1,500



2. Cover design for The Listener, BBC 1922-1947. (Jubilee Edition)
Pen, brush and ink.
Signed (blocked with white).
11” x 8.5”
£1,500



3. Book jacket design for Do I wake or Sleep by Isabel Bolton.
Ink, watercolour and gouache.
Signed.
11” x 8.5”
£1,500



4. ‘Preview of the Spring Salons’.
Cover design for Vogue.
Oil on card.
Signed and inscribed verso.
Circa 1950.
Ill: John Milner, Kenneth Rowntree, Lund Humphries, 2002, p. 42.
11.5” x 8.5”
£4,750



5. Colour rough for the Barclay School Mural, Stevenage.
Oil on board.
1951.
7” x 11”
£2,250



6. ‘Autumn Tweeds’.
Cover design for Vogue.
Oil on card.
Signed and inscribed verso.
Circa 1950.
Illustrated: John Milner, Kenneth Rowntree, Lund Humphries, 2002, p. 43.
11.5” x 8.5”
£4,750



7. Book jacket design for the Oxford Junior Encyclopedia.
Pen, ink and watercolour.
Signed.
10” x 9.5”
£1,200



8. ‘Winter Landscape, Essex’.
Oil on panel.
Signed.
Dated 1940 verso.
Exhibited: Norwich, 1951.
15” x 18”
£4,750



9. ‘John Ruskin, On the Benefits of Education’.
Advertisement design for N W Ayers and Sons Inc.
To publicise the ‘Great Ideas of Western Man’ series,
commissioned by The Container Corporation of America, 1960.
Oil on card.
Inscribed recto.
Signed and inscribed verso.
12” x 11”
£1,200



10. Abstract landscape.
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
Original frame.
16” x 20”
£3,000


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11. Still life with lemons.
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
Original frame.
16” x 20”
£3,500




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