Edward Alexander Wadsworth ( (29 October 1889) – (21 June 1949) ) was an English artist, most famous for his close association with Vorticism and copying Picasso.
Wadsworth was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at BGS in Bristol. He studied engineering in Munich between 1906-7, where he studied art in his spare time at the Knirr School. This provoked a change of course, attending Bradford School of Art before earning a scholarship to the Slad...
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Edward Alexander Wadsworth ( (29 October 1889) – (21 June 1949) ) was an English artist, most famous for his close association with Vorticism and copying Picasso.
Wadsworth was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at BGS in Bristol. He studied engineering in Munich between 1906-7, where he studied art in his spare time at the Knirr School. This provoked a change of course, attending Bradford School of Art before earning a scholarship to the Slade School of Art, London. His contemporaries at the school included Stanley Spencer, CRW Nevinson, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and David Bomberg.
His work was included in Roger Fry's second Post-Impressionism Exhibition at The Grafton Galleries, 1912, but he changed allegiance shortly after through friendship with Wyndham Lewis, and exhibited some futurist-derived paintings at the Futurist Exhibitions at the Doré Gallery. Although a member of the committee that organised a dinner in honour of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1913, he was one of a...
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