Edward Wadsworth

Born 1889 – Died 1949

One of Britain’s best known painters of the 20th century, Wadsworth trained as an engineer in Germany (Munich 1906–07). In 1908–12 he studied painting at the Slade School of Art , London. In 1912 he joined Roger Fry’s Omega Workshops, a short-lived collaboration cut short by Wadsworth’s new friendship with Wyndham Lewis, which led to the creation of the Rebel Art Centre in 1913. The dynamism of modern life, air travel and maritime warfare were among his favourite themes. Wadsworth contributed to the Parisian journal Abstraction-Création and was a founder-member of Unit One. He was elected an ARA in 1943.