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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>
Granite Quarries Darby Hill Oldbury
Purchased 1951
architecture
England
England, Midlands
hill
industrial
industrial society
landscape
Oldbury, Darby Hill
places
quarry
road
social comment
society
structure
telegraph pole
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
Worcestershire
<p>After the first world war Wadsworth made a number of drawings of industrial landscapes. They represent a key phase in his development. Like his earlier Vorticist work they are concerned with regular forms reduced to simple planes. But they also show him attempting to forge a more realistic and unidealised vision of the modern world in the aftermath of war. Appropriately, they focus on the waste products of industrialisation, in particular quarries and slag heaps.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper unique ink
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
30 June 2007 – 14 October 2007
2007-10-14
30 June 2007 – 14 October 2007
2007-10-14
2007-06-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-06-30
Art Now: Goshka Macuga
Exhibition
Granite Quarries, Darby Hill, Oldbury
support: 254 × 362 mm
Purchased 1951
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<span class="text7">After the first world war Wadsworth  made a number of      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of industrial <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a>. They represent a key phase </span><span class="text14">in his development. Like his earlier <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></span><span class="text7"> work they are concerned with regular forms reduced to simple      planes. But they </span><span class="text15">also show him attempting to      forge a more</span><span class="text7"> realistic and unidealised      vision of the modern world in the aftermath of war. Appropriately, they      focus on the waste products of industrialisation, in particular quarries      and slag heaps. </span>
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<p><b>N05988</b> GRANITE QUARRIES, DARBY HILL, OLDBURY 1919
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Edward Wadsworth 1919’ b.l. and ‘Granite Quarries, Darby Hill, Oldbury’ on verso.
<br/>Pen and ink, 10×14 1/4 (25·5×36·25).
<br/>Purchased from Mrs Wadsworth (Knapping Fund) 1951.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Tate Gallery, February–March 1951 (64).</p>
<p>This was one of a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> executed during 1919–20 when the artist was collecting material for his book <i>The Black Country</i>, published by the Ovid Press, London, in 1920. It was probably done during the time Wadsworth was staying with Sir Barry Jackson in Birmingham.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture England England, Midlands hill industrial industrial society landscape Oldbury, Darby Hill places quarry road social comment society structure telegraph pole townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions Worcestershire