Edward Wadsworth valuation
British painter and printmaker, a signatory of Vorticism and later a painter of marine still lifes in tempera.
Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) was born in Cleckheaton in Yorkshire and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.
What a work by Edward Wadsworth is worth
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Bio
Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) was born in Cleckheaton in Yorkshire and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He joined the Rebel Art Centre and signed the Vorticist manifesto in BLAST in 1914. In the First World War he worked on applying dazzle camouflage to ships, recording it in woodcuts and in Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool of 1919, now in the National Gallery of Canada. Afterwards he turned to tempera, painting precise, strange still lifes of nautical objects. He exhibited with Paul Nash's Unit One in the 1930s and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1943.
What comes to market is tempera paintings, watercolours and drawings, and his woodcuts, which are scarce and collected. A buyer will look at date and subject, with the Vorticist woodcuts and interwar marine pictures drawing particular interest. Tempera on panel should be checked for flaking and splits in the board, and prints for fading and trimming.
At a glance
- Born
- 1889, Cleckheaton
- Died
- 21 June 1949, London
- Movement
- Vorticism
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