This comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden brings together his most significant work in watercolour, printmaking, design and illustration.

A sequel to the author's previous title on Ravilious, this volume surveys the life and work of fellow artist Edward Bawden (1903-89), another popular exponent of the modern British tradition. The book explores in depth the most significant creative periods of Bawden's life and is fully illustrated throughout.

Bawden began his career in the 1920s as a precociously talented designer and illustrator. He successfully reinvented himself time and again as the decades passed while always retaining a distinctive freshness, humour and humanity in his work.

The book accompanied a major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery.

James Russell studied History at Pembroke College, Cambridge. A passionate advocate of twentieth-century British painting and design, he writes and lectures widely. He is the author of The Lost Watercolours of Edward Bawden as well as titles devoted to Eric Ravilious (Philip Wilson Publishers), Edward Seago, Peggy Angus and Paul Nash. As curator, his previous exhibitions include Ravilious (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2015); Peggy Angus: Designer, Teacher, Painter (Towner, Eastbourne, 2014) and Century, a wide-ranging survey of 20th century British art (The Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 2016).