Rue Janetins, Marseilles

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924
Accession number: 96.15
Maker: Edward Wadsworth(Opens in new tab) (British, 1889–1949)
Dimensions: 18 3/4 x 10 3/8 in. (47.6 x 26.4 cm.)
Medium: pencil on paper
Description: View of a street in Marseilles with buildings.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
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Born in Yorkshire in the north of England, Wadsworth studied at the Slade School. With Nevinson, Bomberg, and several other artists represented in this exhibition, he was one of the signers of the Vorticist manifesto in 1914 and a contributor to "Blast", a short-lived avant-garde literary and artistic publication. After the war, Wadsworth's art became less radical and abstract although it remained firmly rooted in modernism. With its crisp lines and solid forms, his work often displays a classical simplicity that came, in part, from his admiration of the masters of the Renaissance. These qualities are evident in this drawing, one of several made of an area in Marseilles that was notorious for its criminal element. With spare outlines and soft shading on a long sheet of paper, the artist captures the humble houses draped with laundry that crowd the narrow passageway.

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