Edward Bawden Paintings

Bawden considered his paintings to be amongst some of his most important works. His first major exhibition held at the Zwemmer Gallery, London in 1933 was of watercolours of Essex landscapes. Between 1940 and 1944 he was appointed official war artist with the British Expeditionary Force in France (Dunkirk) and later posted to the Middle East (Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria) and North Africa (Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya and Sudan). During the summers of 1949 and 1950 when he was teaching as guest instructor at the Banff School of Fine Art, Banff, Alberta, Canada he did a series of Canadian landscapes in watercolour. A visit to Persia/Iran in 1966 sponsored by British Petroleum gave Bawden the opportunity to produce a further series of drawings of middle eastern landscapes. The Bawden archive at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery includes studies and sketches for some of Bawden's most famous murals, the Bunyan's Dream tapestry design and two watercolours: Horn Head V, Donegal, Eire, 1968 and To Winnipeg, 1950. Photographs of several of his other works form part of the archive.




Photographs of drawings of Persia/Iran 1966