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  1. Wadsworth was greatly inspired by the industrial landscape found in West Yorkshire, an area he knew from his childhood. Works such as Yorkshire Village use an abstract, reductive vocabulary based on faceted geometric forms that recalls early Cubist landscapes by Picasso and Braque.

  2. Aug 27, 2024 · Calderdale Council has recognised the most important landscapes of the district by designating them as a Special Landscape Area (SLA), Wadsworth lies within the SLA.

  3. Wadsworth would have seen the landscape of the Black Country from the train as he travelled from London to Liverpool where he was engaged in painting dazzle camouflage on ships. The man-made landscape created by the slag heaps from coal and steel production, dotted with winding wheels, smoking furnaces and freight trains, held a particular ...

  4. 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.

  5. Mar 9, 2022 · Edward Wadsworth’s painting was a continuous voyage of discovery in the possibilities of his art. His early landscapes of the Black Country proclaimed the arrival of a painter of distinct originality.

  6. Edward Alexander Wadsworth. Sitter in 3 portraits. Artist of 1 portrait. Painter and printmaker. Born in Yorkshire, Wadsworth attended Bradford School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London, where he won prizes for his landscape and figure painting.

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  8. Osborne Samuel Ltd. Wadsworth travelled between Liverpool and London by train during the First World War, and was inspired by the industrial landscape of the Black Country. In 1920 he exhibited a set of watercolours and drawings on this subject at the Leicester galleries.

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