Landscape

Location

Country: Sweden
City: Stockholm
Place: British Embassy

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

landscape C20th, London Group, grass, tree, hill

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

Title

Landscape

Date

c.1926-1927

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 63.00 cm, width: 76.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, August 1954

Inscription

br: PN (Monogram)

Provenance

Collection of architect and town planner Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett (later 4th Viscount Esher; 1913-2004); from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in August 1954

GAC number

2835