Bawden, Edward - Dunkirk (1986) - lithograph - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Dunkirk (1986)
• Artist (if known): Edward Bawden
• Media or other details:  Lithograph
• Publisher / Gallery: Fry Art Gallery, Castle Street, Saffron Walden
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A589

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Edward Bawden CBE RA (1903 – 1989) was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture.^[1] He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists.

Edward Bawden was born in England on 10 March 1903, at Braintree, Essex, the only child of Edward Bawden (ironmonger) and Eleanor Bawden (née Game). His parents were Methodist Christians. A solitary child, he spent much time drawing or wandering with butterfly-net and microscope. At the age of seven he was enrolled at Braintree High School, and began studying or copying drawings of cats by Louis Wain, illustrations in boys' and girls' magazines and Burne Jones's illustrations of Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Later his parents paid for him to attend the Friends' School at Saffron Walden, and there, when he was fifteen, the headmaster recommended him to study for one day a week at Cambridge School of Art.

On leaving school in 1919 he attended Cambridge School of Art full-time (1919 to 1921). Here he became interested in calligraphy and in the work of Aubrey Beardsley, Richard Doyle, William Morris and other Victorians.^[2] This was followed in 1922 by a scholarship to the Royal College of Art School of Design in London, where he took a diploma in illustration until 1925.^[3] Here he met his fellow student and future collaborator, Eric Ravilious; the pair were described by their teacher, Paul Nash, as ""an extraordinary outbreak of talent"".

By 1930 Bawden was working one day a week for the Curwen Press (as was Ravilious and their former tutor, Nash), producing illustrations for leading accounts such as London Transport, Westminster Bank, Twinings, Poole Potteries and Shell-Mex.^[3]

In 1928, Bawden was commissioned by Sir Joseph Duveen at the rate of £1 per day to create a mural for the Refectory at Morley College, London with Ravilious and Charles Mahoney. The mural was opened in 1930 by former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, at the time leader of the opposition, having ended his premiership in 1929.^[4]

In the early 1930s he was discovered by the Stuart Advertising Agency, owned by H. Stuart Menzies and Marcus Brumwell. At this time Bawden produced some of his most humorous and innovative work for Fortnum & Mason and Imperial Airways. It was also in this period that Bawden produced the tiles for the London underground, which were exhibited at the International Building Trades Exhibition at Olympia in April 1928.^[5]

In 1932 he married Charlotte Epton, who had been a fellow-student at the Royal College.^[6] They had two children, Joanna and Richard,^[7] both of whom would become artists.^[8] At first the couple lived in a flat in Hammersmith, but soon moved to a Georgian house in Great Bardfield, Essex, only a few miles from Braintree, where Bawden was born.^[6] Following his move to the country he began to paint more, in addition to his commercial design work, developing his watercolour technique. Most of his subjects were of scenes around Great Bardfield. He held an exhibition of his Essex watercolours at the Zwemmer Gallery in 1934,^[9] and another show of his paintings was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1938.^[10]

In 1938 he collaborated with John Aldridge, who also lived in the village, on a range of wallpapers, intended to be printed commercially, but from lino blocks handcut by the designers. The project left little other time for other work during the year, and war intervened, before the papers could go into production.^[10]

One of his most familiar designs from this era was the 'Puzzled Lion and Startled Unicorn' Observer masthead, which was created around 1939 and remained in use by the national newspaper until 1989.^[11]

During the Second World War, Edward Bawden served as official war artist, first with the British army in France, and then, following the army's evacuation from there, in the Middle East.^[10] Already in France before World War II was declared, Bawden recorded defences being prepared at Halluin, then witnessed the bombing of Armentières and the evacuation from Dunkirk. He was posted to North Africa as a War Office Artist on a full-time War Artists' Advisory Committee contract. Bawden painted landscapes and portraits in Libya, Sudan, Cairo, Eritrea and Ethiopia, reaching Addis Ababa in May 1941. At the start of 1942, he travelled with Anthony Gross to Palestine and Lebanon.

After making a series of studies of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq he was recalled to London. Bawden departed Cairo aboard the SS Stratheden but transferred to the RMS Laconia in Durban on 27 August 1942. After the Laconia was torpedoed and sunk, on 12 September 1942, Bawden spent five days in an open lifeboat before being rescued by a French ship, the Gloire.^[12] Bawden was held prisoner in a Vichy internment camp in Casablanca for two months before the camp was liberated by American troops.^[13] From Casablanca Bawden sailed to Norfolk, Virginia.^[12] When he eventually returned to Britain, Bawden did portrait work at the Military Hospital in Colchester and in Scotland, with Polish forces training there. He returned to Iraq in September 1943, as a Ministry of Information artist to work in Baghdad and Kurdistan before he joined the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit on its trek to Jeddah. After Jeddah, he returned to the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq, before entering Iran to portray supply shipments to the Soviet Union.

Bawden returned to England in 1944 and for a short while, painted at Southampton docks before departing for Yugoslavia, by way of Rome. Unable to enter Yugoslavia he went to Ravenna, then Greece, Austria and Florence before travelling back to England in July 1945.^[14][15]

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