Liner

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

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.

Places

Subjects

rope, ocean liner, ladder, sea, wave, railing, ship

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

Title

Liner

Date

1932

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 55.50 cm, width: 72.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Mayor Gallery, June 1964

Inscription

bl: Paul Nash / 1932

GAC number

6514