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Bawden, Edward – Hare and Tortoise

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Description

Colour linocut, 1970. In the 1970’s Bawden made a series of prints based on Aesop’s fables. The tortoise and the hare each claim an ability to run fastest. They agree upon a race, but mid-way through, convinced of his skills, the hare decides to rest – to sleep by the roadside. The tortoise, aware of his own pace, decides to run all the way without stopping; he overtakes the hare, and so wins the race. The moral? Hard work is often better than skills taken for granted.

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PostageUK postage free of charge. International postage is calculated at checkout.
FormatGiclée Print, Limited Edition (1/850) on 310gsm thick 100% cotton rag. Hand-numbered and hand-embossed.
SizeImage 30 x 42cm; paper: 42 x 51cm
Edward Bawden

About This Artist

Edward Bawden CBE RA

Edward Bawden [1903-89] studied at the Cambridge School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. He belonged to that circle of friends which included Eric Ravilious, Douglas Bliss and Enid Marx – a group tutored by Paul Nash and famously described by him as representing ‘an outbreak of talent’.
Bawden taught at Goldsmith’s College and the Royal College of Art; at the same time he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator providing posters for London Transport, designs for the Poole Potteries and Curwen Press, and book illustrations for Faber and Faber. During the Second World War Bawden was nominated Official War Artist; he produced mostly watercolours, at this point, and worked both in France and the Middle East.

During the late 1950’s and the 1960’s Bawden produced the linocut and lithographs for which he is perhaps best known. He produced large prints on Kew Gardens and Brighton; on Liverpool Street Station and a series on the London Markets. Clear and bold and often graphic in design – reflective no doubt of his training in the Design School of the Royal College – they are representative of lino-cutting at its best. They also push the creative possibilities of the medium as in, for instance, the angular cuts in Snowstorm at Brighton which make abstract the portrayal of a storm whilst at the same time graphically capturing its impact.

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