Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden CBE RA was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War Two. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists and his work and career is often associated with that of his contemporary Eric Ravilious.
Edward Bawden was born in England onMarch 1903, at Braintree, Essex, the only child of Edward Bawden and Eleanor Bawden . His parents were Methodist Christians. A solitary child, he spent much time drawing or wandering with butterflynet and microscope. At the age of seven he was enrolled at Braintree High School, and began studying or copying drawings of cats by Louis Wain, illustrations in boys and girls magazines and Burne Joness illustrations of Malorys Morte dArthur. Later his parents paid for him to attend the Friends School at Saffron Walden, and there, when he was fifteen, the headmaster recommended him to study for one day a week at Cambridge School of Art.
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