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1942 · Tempera on fabric
support: 1016 x 711 mm
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Edward Wadsworth
British, 1889
Cleckheaton, UK
PrintmakingSurrealismRealism
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None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
27
Works in Collection
32
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4
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- • Surrealism
- • Realism
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The Cubist Imprint
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Master Prints from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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Britain at War
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1941
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Why this artist matters now
Edward Wadsworth was a British painter and printmaker associated with Vorticism and later Surrealism, known for his precise compositions and distinctive use of tempera on hardboard. His work ranged from angular, machine-inspired abstractions in the 1910s to meticulously rendered maritime and coastal scenes rendered with an almost photographic clarity. Wadsworth's technical mastery of wood engraving and his turn toward detailed naturalism in the interwar period established him as a singular figure in British modernism, neither fully abstract nor conventional in his approach to representation.
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