Edward Bawden - Softcover

Russell, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781300658 ISBN 13: 9781781300657

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

This comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden (1903-89) accompanied a major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery and brings together his most significant work in watercolour, printmaking, design and illustration.
Bawden began his career in the 1920s as a precociously talented designer and illustrator, and he successfully reinvented himself time and again as the decades passed while always retaining a distinctive freshness, humour and humanity in his work. The book explores in depth the most significant creative periods of Bawden's life and is fully illustrated throughout.

About this title

About the Author

James Russell studied History at Pembroke College, Cambridge. A passionate advocate of twentieth-century British painting and design, he writes and lectures widely. He is the author of The Lost Watercolours of Edward Bawden as well as titles devoted to Eric Ravilious (PWP), Edward Seago, Peggy Angus and Paul Nash. As curator, his previous exhibitions include Ravilious (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2015); Peggy Angus: Designer, Teacher, Painter (Towner, Eastbourne, 2014) and Century, a wide-ranging survey of 20th century British art (The Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 2016).

Review

"Edward Bawden is breaking out all over the country this summer. Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden, Essex, have major surveys of his work, each with an accompanying book."

(Peyton Skipwith, Country Life 2018-07-02)

"Sumptuous."

(Clare Walters, Eye Magazine 2018-07-02)

Edition details

• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1781300658
• ISBN 13: 9781781300657
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176