- Artist
- Edward Wadsworth 1889–1949
- Medium
- Tempera on canvas on wood
- Dimensions
- Support: 711 × 1016 mm
frame: 910 × 1215 × 85 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1938
- Reference
- N04935
Catalogue entry
N04935 THE BEACHED MARGIN 1937
Inscr. ‘E. Wadsworth 1937’ b.l.
Tempera on linen laid on panel, 28×40 (71×101·5).
Purchased from the artist through Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd (Clarke Fund) 1938.
Exh: Tooth's, April–May 1938 (13); Tate Gallery, February–March 1951 (30); Venice Biennale, 1952 (British Pavilion, 72).
Repr: John Rothenstein, The Tate Gallery, 1962, p.256.
The artist seems to have stopped painting landscapes and harbour scenes such as T00497 by about 1925 and turned to still life, often composed of shells and mechanical objects with a nautical connotation, binoculars, sextants, for example, sometimes set against a seascape background. ‘The Beached Margin’ is a logical development of this type of subject which is perhaps partly inspired by Surrealist techniques, but also owes much to Léger, whose style Wadsworth imitated briefly in a series of still lifes of 1930–2. (Cf. also N05147.)
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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