{"id":33414,"date":"2013-10-27T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/graphic-design-en\/edward-bawden-great-illustration-great-britain"},"modified":"2021-06-23T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:01:47","slug":"edward-bawden-great-illustration-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/en\/history-of-graphic-design\/edward-bawden-great-illustration-great-britain","title":{"rendered":"Edward Bawden, “Great illustrator from Great Britain”"},"content":{"rendered":"

To continue our series of articles on the great names in graphic design<\/a>, we told you a few weeks ago about Alexander Girard<\/a> (1907-1993). We continue this time with an english graphic designer and illustrator little known in France. Yet, across the Channel, Edward Bawden<\/strong> is an illustrious illustrator!<\/p>\n

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Edwrad Bawden, great design from Great Britain<\/h2>\n

Edward Bawden (1903-1989) was apparently a lonely child. His youth was divided between drawing classes where he copied cat drawings and spent afternoons hunting butterflies. His life was spent drawing a world with a lot of enchantment...<\/p>\n

He first studied Fine Arts at the Cambridge School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art. There he met a group of young future talents such as\u00a0Eric Ravilious<\/a>,\u00a0Douglas Bliss<\/a> or\u00a0Enid Marx<\/a>. Don't worry, I too was unaware of the existence of these 3 illustrious great Britons. By the way, if the first two seem to be honorable painters, the third produced a very graphic work as a textile designer.<\/strong> For example, he designed the textile seats for the London Underground in 1937.<\/p>\n

This is a digression that allows us to immerse ourselves in this pre-war period in England. When Edward Johnston<\/a> tought Eric Gill<\/a> the art of typography while working on London Underground signage.<\/p>\n

Teaching and drawing<\/h3>\n

Starting in 1928, Edward starts being a drawing and decorative arts teacher<\/strong> at Goldsmith's College and later at the Royal College of Arts.
\nHe carries out private commissions in parallel with his teaching activity. That year, Sir Joseph Duveen<\/a>, an English art dealer, commissioned him to create a mural for the refectory at Morley College at a rate of \u00a31 a day. This amount seems ridiculous today... but it would correspond to about 60\u20ac today.<\/p>\n

During this period, for example, Shell commissioned him to decorate a mural for one of its new buildings, the London Underground commissioned him to produce posters, or he produced illustrations for Faber and Faber. Below is a wall decoration made in 1966 for British Petroleum.<\/p>\n

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The war was approaching, and he was officially named \"Artist to the Armies\"<\/strong>. He travelled extensively during this period to follow the various regiments of the Kingdom. From this period, the Imperial War Museum keeps some archives, such as a rare interview of Bawden.<\/a><\/p>\n

Illustrating more than children stories<\/h2>\n

During the late 1950s and 1960s, Edward Bawden<\/strong> devoted much of his time to linocut and lithography. It was during this period that his work as an illustrator was fully expressed. Here is an overview of his work.<\/p>\n

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Lithography<\/strong> consists in drawing on a porous limestone with a grease pencil or paint, and specific products to treat the stone.<\/p>\n