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Edward Wadsworth: (1889–1949 )
Edward Alexander Wadsworth NEAC ARA (29 October 1889 – 21 June 1949) was an English artist, closely associated with modernist Vorticism movement.
He painted coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life in tempera medium and works printed using wood engraving and copper. He was elected a member of the NEAC in 1921.
Early life and study
Wadsworth was born on 29 October 1889 in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh.
He studied engineering in Munich between 1906 and 1907, where he studied art in his spare time at the Knirr School. This provoked a change of course, as he attended Bradford School of Art before earning a scholarship to the Slade School of Art, London.
His contemporaries at the school included Stanley Spencer, C. R. W. Nevinson, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and David Bomberg.
Career
Wadsworth's work was included in Roger Fry's second Post-Impressionism Exhibition a