Mine Crater. Hill 60. December 1917
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road
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About the artist
Born in Kensington, London, Paul Nash studied at the Slade School of Art (1910–11). He served with the Artists’ Rifles during the First World War and in 1917 he was appointed an Official War Artist, acclaimed for his paintings of shattered landscapes in France and Flanders. In the 1920s Nash moved to Rye, Sussex, painting bleak and ominous landscapes of the area. He began travelling abroad, visiting France regularly. In 1931 he visited New York, Washington and Pittsburgh. He founded the Unit One group in 1933 and participated in the ‘International Surrealist Exhibition’ (London, 1936). In the Second World War Nash became an Official War artist to the Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. He died in Hampshire in 1946.
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Explore
- Subjects
- topography, WW1 art, landscape C20th, tree, crater, World War I
- Materials & Techniques
- paper (as artists material), lithograph
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Details
- Artist
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Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)
- Title
- Mine Crater. Hill 60. December 1917
- Date
- December 1917
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- height: 38.50 cm, width: 47.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Editions Minotaure SA, January 1995
- Inscription
- below image: Mine Crater. Hill 60. / Paul Nash Dec. 1917
- GAC number
- 16872