Le Havre – The Artists – Wadsworth, Edward
This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Le Havre. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.
Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889 – 1949) was an English artist, most famous for his close association with Vorticism. He painted, often in tempera, coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life. He was also engraved wood and copper.
In the First World War he was involved in transferring camouflage designs onto ships for the Royal Navy, and after the war he continued to paint nautical themes.
Click here to read his full bio on Wikipedia.
We found one of his paintings dealing with Le Havre
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He painted several other places in Normandy, which will be featured eventually on this site. A link to those cities will appear here.
Here are the painters/artists who painted in Le Havre :
- 🇫🇷 Adam, Edouard Marie
- 🇷🇺 Beggrov, Alexander
- 🇷🇺 Bogoliubo, Alexei
- 🇬🇧 Bonington, Richard Parkes
- 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene-Louis
- 🇫🇷 Coignet, Jules
- 🇫🇷 Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille
- 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell
- 🇫🇷 Dufy, Jean
- 🇫🇷 Dufy, Raoul
- 🇫🇷 Friesz, Othon
- 🇫🇷 Goeneutte, Norbert
- 🇷🇺 Gritsenko, Nikolai
- 🇫🇷 Gudin, Theodore
- 🇳🇱 Jongkind, Johan Barthold
- 🇫🇷 Lebourg, Albert
- 🇫🇷 Loir, Luigi
- 🇫🇷 Loiseau, Gustave
- 🇫🇷 Marquet, Albert
- 🇫🇷 Maufra, Maxime
- 🇫🇷 Monet, Claude
- 🇨🇦 Morrice, James Wilson
- 🇸🇪 Osslund, Helmer
- 🇫🇷 Pecrus, Charles Francois
- 🇩🇰 Pissarro, Camille
- 🇫🇷 Signac, Paul
- 🇧🇪 Stevens, Alfred Emile Leopold
- 🇳🇴 Thaulow, Fritz
- 🇬🇧 Turner, Joseph Mallord William
- 🇬🇧 Wadsworth, Edward
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