Edward Alexander Wadsworth ARA (1889 – 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.
*This collection of woodcuts were printed from the blocks and published in April 1921. They were printed by Walter Bradley at The Moorland Press on Basingwerk Parchment wove paper, and published by Little Art Rooms. These works were in the collection of Charles Rutherston, the eldest brother of Albert Rutherston and William Rothenstein.