Artist
Edward Wadsworth
British, 1889–1949
Edward Wadsworth was a British Art Brut artist. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Edward Wadsworth was born in Cleckheaton.
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. 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.
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