Edward Wadsworth
British artist, printmaker, and camoufleur (1889-1949) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 59
Edward Alexander Wadsworth was an English artist initially associated with the Vorticism movement. In the First World War he was part of a team involved in the transfer of dazzle camouflage designs to ships for the Royal Navy.
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Rotherhithe oil on canvas c.1911
Edward Wadsworth and Wyndham Lewis at the Rebel Art Centre, March 1914, with Kate Lechmere and Cuthbert Hamilton (seated).
Abstract Composition, 1915 Tate Gallery.
Wadsworth in 1916. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, 1919, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Fortunes Well, Portland watercolour, 1921
The Cattewater, Plymouth Sound, tempora on board, 1923About this person
After the war his maritime landscapes and still-life compositions using tempera were infused with a surrealistic mood - although he never exhibited with the British surrealists. In the 1930s and the early 1940s his work was mainly abstract. He made a significant contribution to the development of modern art in Britain in the inter-war years.
