An Old Crab and a Young Print by Edward Bawden
- Medium: Giclée Print
- Numbered
- Number of editions: -
- Unframed
- Print size: 34cm (W) x 50.7cm (H)
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Reproduction print from the original linocut, based on one of Aesop's fables which was commissioned by the designer John Lewis for his book A Handbook of Type and Illustration (Faber & Faber 1956).
Edward Bawden (1903-1989) An Old Crab and a Young (from Aesop’s Fables) c.1956, after the Linocut on paper (size of original 38cm x 25.5cm) Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (The David Medd Bequest)
© Estate of Edward Bawden, Published by Pallant House Gallery Bookshop, Chichester, 2010.
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Artists Biography
(b Braintree, Essex, 10 March 1903; d Saffron Walden, Essex, 21 Nov 1989). English printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and painter. He studied at the School of Art in Cambridge (1918–22) and at the Design School of the Royal College of Art (1922–6), where he was a contemporary of Eric Ravilious and was taught by Paul Nash. While still a student he and Ravilious were commissioned by Sir Joseph Duveen to paint a mural at Morley College (destr. 1940; repainted as the Canterbury Tales in 1958), London. After graduating he worked on a large variety of projects for the Curwen Press at Plaistow, London, and subsequently for many other publishers, producing book illustrations and cover designs, posters and advertisements, leaflets and calendars, including commissions for Shell-Mex, Westminster Bank and the London Transport Board. He held his first one-man show, mainly of landscapes showing the influence of Nash, at the Zwemmer Gallery in London in 1933. During World War II he served as an Official War Artist in the British Army, travelling to Belgium, France and the Middle East and portraying such places as Roman Catholic Church at Addis Ababa (1941; London, Tate). His later work, particularly as a graphic designer, is notable for its simplicity of line and its wit, but he also returned to large-scale mural painting, including murals for the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion at the Festival of Britain, London (1950–51); the British pavilion at Expo ’67, Montreal; and Edward Bawden’s Oxford at Blackwell’s Bookshop (1972–3), Oxford. He also became well-known for his linocuts, among them Nine London Monuments (Editions Alecto, 1966; see Howes, pp. 96–7) and Six London Markets (Curwen Prints, 1967; see Howes, p. 98).
