Edward Bawden, RA

1903-1989

"Too Much Hadham", Design for a Shell Advertisement, 1934

Ref: 2135

Pen and black ink, 19 by 17 cm

Provenance: the Fine Art Society, London

 

The 1930s was one of Bawden’s busiest decades for commercial art, with work for organisations including Good Food magazine, London Transport and Shell Mex. He had a particular talent for the ingenious placing of text within a design as evidenced in this drawing for a magazine advertisement for Shell (see fig.1 below). 

 

 

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