Woodcut on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-wadsworth-2113" aria-label="More by Edward Wadsworth" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Wadsworth</a>
Open Window
Purchased 1970
<p>Most of Wadsworth’s surviving Vorticist works are woodcuts, which he continued to make throughout the war. He was already interested in the effects of colour, and produced six different versions of this woodcut, in colours ranging from grey to scarlet.</p><p>The American poet and writer Ezra Pound owned some of Wadsworth’s woodcuts and compared their compositions to the abstract language of music. In fact musical references appear in Wadsworth’s work through out his career (see for example Dux et Comes I 1932, also in this display).</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper print woodcut
30 March 2005 – 20 March 2006
2006-03-20
30 March 2005 – 19 March 2006
2006-03-19
2005-03-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-03-30
Edward Wadsworth
Collection based display
1 September 2013 – 31 January 2014
2014-01-31
1 September 2013 – 31 January 2014
2014-01-31
2013-09-01
Cooper Gallery (Barnsley, UK)
http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/tourism/coopergallery/index.asp
2013-09-01
Edward Wadsworth
Loan-out
4 July 2014 – 26 October 2014
2014-10-26
4 July 2014 – 28 October 2014
2014-10-28
2014-07-04
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2014-07-04
Claude Parent
Collection based display
10 February 2018 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
10 February 2018 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
2018-02-10
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2018-02-10
Omega
Collection based display
1 October 2020 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
1 October 2020 – 28 November 2021
2021-11-28
2020-10-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2020-10-01
Vorticism
Collection based display
The Open Window
image: 184 × 133 mm
Purchased 1970
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<span class="text7">Most of Wadsworth’s surviving <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/v/vorticism" title="Glossary definition for 'Vorticism'"><span>Vorticist</span></a> works are      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/woodcut" title="Glossary definition for 'Woodcut'"><span>woodcuts</span></a>, which he continued to make throughout the war. He was already      interested in the effects of colour, and produced six different versions of      this woodcut, in colours ranging from grey  to scarlet.  </span>
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<span class="text7">The American poet and writer Ezra Pound owned some of      Wadsworth’s woodcuts and compared their <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>compositions</span></a> to the </span><span class="text14"><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstract</span></a> language of music. In fact musical</span><span class="text7"> references appear in Wadsworth’s work through out his      career (see for example </span><span class="text15">Dux et Comes I</span><span class="text7"> 1932, also in this display). </span>
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<p><b>P07120</b>		[from] THREE WOODCUTS <i>circa</i> 1915–18 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wadsworth-view-of-a-town-p07118" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07118</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wadsworth-the-open-window-p07120" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07120</span></a>]
<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Purchased from the d'Offay Couper Gallery (Gytha Trust) 1970.</p>
<p>(iii) The Open Window <i>circa</i> 1915.</p>
<p>Printed in three colours.</p>
<p>Image 6¼×4¼ (16×10.5) on paper 9⅞×6⅜ (25×16).
<br/><i>Coll:</i> The artist's daughter, Mrs von Bethmann Hollweg, London; d'Offay Couper Gallery, London.</p>
<p><i>Exh:</i> <i>Abstract Art in England 1913–1915</i>, d'Offay Couper Gallery, November–December 1969 (37–39, repr.).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
(iii) is also reproduced in <i>Studio International</i>, CLXXVIII, 1969, p. 221.
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<br/>The titles used here and in the d'Offay Couper exhibition were taken from an unpublished thesis on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/v/vorticism" title="Glossary definition for 'Vorticism'"><span>Vorticism</span></a> by William Lipke. The two most <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstract</span></a> works (ii) and (iii) are dated c. 1915 because of some resemblance to Wadsworth's works reproduced in <i>Blast</i>, No. 2, published in July 1915; the other, more spatial design seems to reflect his experiences during the latter part of the war as a camouflage artist. 
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1968-70</i>, London 1970</p>
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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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