S.S. Jerseymoor
Purchase, Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gift, Lila Acheson Wallace, Charles and Jessie Price, and David T Schiff Gifts, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Dolores Valvidia Hurlburt Bequest, PECO Foundation and Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2019
Catalogue
- Year
- 1918
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 1/4 × 11 1/4 in. (18.4 × 28.6 cm) Image: 4 11/16 × 8 5/16 in. (11.9 × 21.1 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Edward Wadsworth
Artist
Printmaking
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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Signals
1942 · Tempera on fabric
Bronze Ballet
1940 · Tempera on plywood
The Beached Margin
1937 · Tempera on canvas on wood
Dux et Comes I
1932 · Tempera on canvas
Regalia
1928 · Tempera and oil paint on canvas on board
Still Life
1926 · Tempera and traced carbon on cardboard
Record
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- Edward Wadsworth
- Year
- 1918
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 1/4 × 11 1/4 in. (18.4 × 28.6 cm) Image: 4 11/16 × 8 5/16 in. (11.9 × 21.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1918-011117
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified