Edward Wadsworth

Edward Wadsworth
Wadsworth in 1937 (self-portrait in tempera)
Born	Edward Alexander Wadsworth 19 October 1889 (1889-10-19) Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England
Died	21 June 1949 (1949-06-22) (aged 59) Bayswater, London, England
Known for	Painting
Movement	modernism

Edward Alexander Wadsworth ARA (19 October 1889 – 21 June 1949) was a British 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 early thirties and in the early forties his work was mainly abstract. He made a significant contribution to the development of modern art in Britain in the inter-war years.