One of many linocut illustrations from Dunlopera: the works and workings of the Dunlop Rubber Company, by Paul Jennings, with drawings by Edward Bawden, R.A.,1961 Paul Jennings (1918-1989) was an English humourist who had a fortnightly column Oddly Enough, in The...
Visitors entering the Fry Gallery will find in the lobby a Victorian bust of the Rt. Hon, Lewis Fry, MP for Bristol executed in 1882 by James Havard Thomas, and perhaps wonder why he is there in “a shrine to my favourite Essex artists” (to quote Grayson Perry). The...
This is the design for platform murals at Tottenham Hale station on the Victoria Line on the London Underground system which opened in 1968. Thousands pass it every day without knowing it is the work of Edward Bawden. During the Covid-19 pandemic we used it to remind...
1984, Linocut After Edward Bawden had completed late in 1981 sixty-eight illustrations for the three-volume Folio Society edition of Mallory’s Morte d’Arthur, he was reluctant to undertake more book illustrations. However by 1984, he agreed to provide six...
linocut 1964 Kew’s Pagoda was completed in 1762 as a gift for Princess Augusta, the founder of the Gardens. It was one of several Chinese buildings designed for Kew by Sir William Chambers, who had spent time travelling and studying the architecture of East Asia. A...
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