Worth Matravers

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Home Office, 2 Marsham 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

England, Worth Matravers, Dorset, Isle of Purbeck

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, hill, stone wall

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

Title

Worth Matravers

Date

1936

Medium

Pencil and watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 38.50 cm, width: 56.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, February 1954

Inscription

br: Paul Nash

Provenance

Collection of Sir John Parkinson by c.1937; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in January 1954

GAC number

2615