Edward Bawden

Gubba: Panorama of the Town

1941

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Artist: Edward Bawden 1903–1989
Medium: Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 381 x 978 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
Reference: N05680

Catalogue entry

N05680 GUBBA: PANORAMA OF THE TOWN 1941

Inscr. ‘Edward Bawden’ b.r.
Pen and watercolour, 15×38 1/2 (38×98), on two pieces of paper joined together.
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, provincial galleries, 1943, National Gallery, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (367).

Gubba, the subject of this and the drawings N05681 and N05682, is in Abyssinia.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I