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Biography
Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was an English writer, painter, and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.
His novels include Tarr (1918) and The Human Age trilogy, composed of The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai (1955) and Malign Fiesta (1955). A fourth volume, titled The Trial of Man, was unfinished at the time of his death. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes: Blasting and Bombardiering (1937) and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career Up-to-Date (1950).
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Wyndham Lewis Vorticist Composition
1915 -
Wyndham Lewis Planners: Happy Day
1912–13 -
Wyndham Lewis Crouching Nude
c.1919 -
Wyndham Lewis La Suerte
1938 -
Wyndham Lewis Composition
1913 -
Wyndham Lewis Edith Sitwell
1923–35 -
Wyndham Lewis Indian Dance
1912 -
Wyndham Lewis Portrait Sketch: Seated Woman with Beads
c.1923
Artist as subject
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Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[11 June 1923] -
Michael Ayrton Portrait of Wyndham Lewis
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Walter Richard Sickert, recipient: Ethel Sands Letter from Walter Sickert to Ethel Sands, addressed 8 Fitzroy Street
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Walter Richard Sickert, recipient: Ethel Sands Letter from Walter Sickert to Ethel Sands
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Walter Richard Sickert, recipient: Ethel Sands Letter from Walter Sickert to Ethel Sands, addressed London County Council, Westminster Technical Institute
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William Roberts The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel: Spring, 1915
1961–2 -
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[15 February 1930] -
Walter Richard Sickert, recipients: Ethel Sands, Anna Hope Hudson Letter from Walter Sickert to Ethel Sands and Nan Hudson
[c.1914] -
Ben Nicholson OM Copy of extracts from letters sent to Norman Reid, Ronald Alley and ‘BR’
21 October 1956–4 December 1968
Film and audio
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Modernity in Conflict - Michael Nath
Michael Nath, Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Westminster, examines the contribution of Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticist …
Features
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Essay
Lost Art: Wyndham Lewis
The Gallery of Lost Art is an immersive, online exhibition that tells the fascinating stories of artworks that have disappeared. …
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Art Term
Vorticism
The vorticists were a British avant-garde group formed in London in 1914 with the aim of creating art that expressed …
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Art Term
Rebel Art Centre
The Rebel Art Centre was founded by Wyndham Lewis in London in March 1914 as a meeting place for artists …
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Art Term
Group X
Group X was a short lived group of British artists formed by Wyndham Lewis in 1920 to provide a continuing …
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Tate Etc
Women that a movement forgot: The Vorticists I
The short-lived Vorticist movement was often seen as a predominantly masculine, muscular affair, but as one of the descendents of …
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Tate Etc
Drawing the vortex: The Vorticists II
The British avant-garde group was formed in London in 1914 by the artist, writer and polemicist Wyndham Lewis. Their idea, …
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Tate Papers
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Tate Etc
Image/ word: Poets and visual artists
Vincent Katz on poets and visual artists; Tate Etc essay, summer 2009 issue
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