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Edward Alexander Wadsworth Biography
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1906 - 1907 |
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Studied engineering in Munich and attended evening classes at a Munich art school
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1908 - 1912 |
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Returned to England and studied briefly at Bradford Art School, and then won a scholarship to the Slade School
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1913 |
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Work was included in the second Post-Impressionist Exhibition at the Grafton Gallery and joined Roger Fry’s newly founded Omega Workshops
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1914 |
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Founder-member of the London Group, exhibited with the Allied Artists’ Association, and was a signatory, with Wyndham Lewis, to the Vorticist Manifesto
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1915 |
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Contributed to Blast and exhibited with the Vorticists
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1919 |
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Produced a large painting, Dazzle-Ships in Dry Dock at Liverpool, now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
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1919 |
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First one-man exhibition, at the Adelphi Gallery, of drawings and woodcuts
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1920 |
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Exhibited his Black Country series, which concentrated on industrial subjects, at the Leicester Galleries, and in the same year exhibited with Group X
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1930 |
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Became a member of Unit One and Abstraction-Création
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1944 |
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Elected an Associate of the Royal Academy
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1951 |
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Memorial Exhibition of his work was held at the Tate Gallery
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