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Chee Dale, Derbyshire

Drawing
1922 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949) was a leading member of the Vorticist group of painters, active in England in the years around the time of the First World War. However, during the 1920s his style developed away from an abstraction based on mechanised forms, and towards a more straightforward realism.

Wadsworth rarely drew for its own sake (with the exception of a group of views of the industrial landscape of the Black Country dating from 1919), with the result that his drawings are relatively rare; most date from the years 1919 to 1925.

'Chee Dale, Derbyshire' was executed in 1922, when Wadsworth and his wife went to stay with his cousin Walter in the Derbyshire Peak District in order to recuperate after the death of their eldest daughter Anne, aged nine, in March of that year. Other drawings or tempera paintings completed during this visit to the area depict Glossop, Buxton, Broadbottom, Chapel-en-le-Frith and Stockport.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleChee Dale, Derbyshire (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
pencil
Brief description
Drawing by Edward Wadsworth, 'Chee Dale, Derbyshire', pencil, 1922
Physical description
Pencil drawing of landscape in the Derbyshire Peak District with rolling hills, curving roads and limestone cliffs. Buildings on the right.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 25cm
  • Image width: 34.5cm
  • Frame height: 56cm
  • Frame width: 64.7cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'Edward Wadsworth 1922' (Signed and dated in pen, bottom right)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Margaret Pemberton
Object history
Bequeathed by Margaret Pemberton, 2004; once owned by Gwen Herbert
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Summary
Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949) was a leading member of the Vorticist group of painters, active in England in the years around the time of the First World War. However, during the 1920s his style developed away from an abstraction based on mechanised forms, and towards a more straightforward realism.

Wadsworth rarely drew for its own sake (with the exception of a group of views of the industrial landscape of the Black Country dating from 1919), with the result that his drawings are relatively rare; most date from the years 1919 to 1925.

'Chee Dale, Derbyshire' was executed in 1922, when Wadsworth and his wife went to stay with his cousin Walter in the Derbyshire Peak District in order to recuperate after the death of their eldest daughter Anne, aged nine, in March of that year. Other drawings or tempera paintings completed during this visit to the area depict Glossop, Buxton, Broadbottom, Chapel-en-le-Frith and Stockport.
Bibliographic references
  • Owens, Susan, The Art of Drawing British Masters and Methods since 1600, V&A Publishing, London, 2013, p. 168, fig. 134
  • Jonathan Black, Edward Wadsworth: Form, Feeling and Calculation: the Complete Paintings and Drawings (London: Philip Wilson, 2005), no. 168
  • Catalogue of the exhibitions : Water-colour drawings of Brighton and elsewhere by the late Douglas Fox-Pitt ; Paintings in tempera and drawings by Edward Wadsworth. London : Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1923 no. 41
Collection
Accession number
E.572-2005

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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