c1932 Paul Nash by Helen Muspratt
bromide print
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Paul Nash was one of the most individual British artists of his period, taking a distinguished place in the English tradition of deep attachment to the countryside whilst at the same time responding imaginatively to European modernism. He saw himself as a successor of William Blake and Turner.
After training at the Slade School he served in the First World War, was wounded, and worked as an Official War Artist, his work including some powerful views of the pitted and shattered landscape of No Man's Land that rank among the most memorable images of the conflict.
Although his later career was varied and distinguished, many critics feel that his First World War paintings mark the summit of his achievement. In the 1920s and particularly in the 1930s he was influenced by Surrealism (above all by Giorgio de Chirico, an exhibition of whose work he saw in London in 1928)
and often concentrated on mysterious aspects of the landscape.
For much of this time he lived in rural areas (Kent, Sussex, Dorset), basing his work on scenes he knew well but imaginatively transforming them. However, he continued to be involved in the London art world, and in 1933 he was the prime mover in the formation of Unit One; he also helped to organise and exhibited in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936. In the Second World War he was again an Official War Artist. He was already very sick with the asthmatic condition that killed him, but his war work included an acknowledged masterpiece, Totes Meer (Dead Sea), which portrays shot-down aircraft with their wings looking like undulating waves.
Nash was regarded as one of the finest book illustrators of his time; he also designed scenery, fabrics, and posters, and was a photographer and writer, his books including a guide to Dorset (1936). His brother John (1893–1977) was also a painter and illustrator, excelling in meticulous flower drawings for botanical publications. Like Paul he was an Official War Artist in both world wars.
This is part 5 of a 7 - part series on the works of Paul Nash
(still getting random fonts on the captions):
1936-38 Landscape from a Dream
oil on canvas 67.9 x 101.6 cm
Tate, London
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| c1936 Swanage graphite, watercolour and photographs, black and white, on paper 40 x 58.1 cm Tate, London |
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| 1937 Encounter of Two Objects oil on canvas 38.1 x 50.8 cm |
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| 1937 Landscape at Pen Pits watercolour on paper 39.7 x 58.3 cm Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| 1937 Maiden Castle pencil and watercolour on paper 54.6 x 76.2 cm Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT |
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| 1937 Pen Pits before the Woods pencil and watercolour 36 x 54 cm |
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| 1937 Poster for Shell. Kimmeridge Folly, Dorset colour lithograph 76 x 114 cm |
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| 1937 Stone Forest pencil, black chalk and watercolour on paper 58.7 x 40 cm The Whitworth, University of Manchester, UK |
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| 1937 Three Rooms graphite, crayon and watercolour on paper 39.2 x 29.7 cm Tate, London |
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| 1937 Wood on the Hill pencil and watercolour on paper 55.9 x 38.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1937-38 Circle of the Monoliths oil on canvas 78.8 x 104.1 cm Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK |
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| c1937-38 Circle of the Monoliths oil on canvas 71 x 92 cm Private Collection |
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| c1937 Landscape of the Megaliths colour lithograph 58.4 x 83.8 cm |
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| c1937 Landscape of the Megaliths watercolour on paper 50.1 x 75.5 cm Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| 1938 "Fugue" furnishing fabric of printed linen 24.5 x 35.2 cm |
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| 1938 Forest of Dean watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper 27.5 x 38 cm |
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| 1938 Grotto pencil and watercolour 38.1 x 56.5 cm |
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| 1938 Monster Field black and white negative 8.6 x 12.7 cm Tate, London |
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| 1939 Monster Field (oil? details not found) |
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| 1938 Nocturnal Landscape oil on canvas 76.5 x 101.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1938 Silbury Hill pencil and watercolour on paper 39 x 57 cm Private Collection |
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| c1938 Druid Landscape oil on cardboard 58.5 x 40.5 cm British Council Collection, London |
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| 1939 Cloudscape (recto on another canvas) oil on canvas 52 x 63 cm The Postal Museum, London |
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| 1939 Grotto in the Snow oil on canvas 71.8 x 48.9 cm Tate, London |
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| 1939 Object at Scarbank pencil and watercolour on paper 39.4 x 29.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 Bomber in the Corn watercolour 39.4 x 57.8 cm Tate, London |
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| 1940 Flying against Germany pencil and watercolour 16 x 24 cm |
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| 1940 London: Winter Scene pencil and watercolour 28.9 x 39.4 cm Tate, London |
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| 1940 Target Area Imperial War Museums, London |
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| 1940 The Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park pastel and watercolour 40 x 57.8 cm Tate, London |
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| 1940 View R oil on card 59.8 x 41.9 cm Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, UK |
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| 1940-41 Totes Meer (Dead Sea) oil on canvas 102 x 152.4 cm Tate, London |
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| 1940-41 Totes Meer Wrecked Aircraft, Cowley Dump black and white negative 8.8. x 12 cm Tate, London |
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| 1941 Battle of Britain oil on canvas 122.6 x 183.5 cm Imperial War Museums, London |
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| 1941 Laocoön black and white negative 83 x 124 cm Tate Archive, London |
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| 1941 Laocoön black and white negative 83 x 127 cm Tate Archive, London |
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| 1941 Laocoön pencil, watercolour, coloured crayon and pastel 27.6 x 38.8 cm |
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| 1941 Orchard at Madams, Summer Study watercolour and chalk on paper 38 x 56 cm |
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| 1942 Defence of Albion oil on canvas 121.9 x 182.8 cm Imperial War Museum, London |
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| 1942 Follow the Führer over the Snows chalk, watercolour and collage on paper 38.1 x 55.9 cm Imperial War Museums, London |
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| 1942 November Moon oil on canvas 76.2 x 50.8 cm The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
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| 1942 Oxford During the War oil on canvas 112.5 x 100 cm Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK |
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| 1942 Russell Square (London) pencil and watercolour 38 x 57 cm |
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| 1942 Sunflower and Sun oil on canvas 51 x 76.5 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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| 1943 Landscape of the Bagley Woods oil on canvas 56 x 86.3 cm Glynn Vivian Art Collection, Swansea, Wales, UK |
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| 1943 Landscape of the Brown Fungus oil on canvas 50.8 x 76.4 cm National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art |
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| 1943 Landscape of the Malvern Distance oil on board 55.9 c 76.2 cm Southampton City Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1943 Landscape of the Moon's First Quarter oil on canvas 63.3 x 70.1 cm Birmingham Museums Trust, UK |
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| 1943 Landscape of the Summer Stolstice oil on canvas 71.8 x 91.6 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1943 Landscape of the Vale - Moonlight pencil, chalk and watercolour 40 x 58.2 cm British Museum, London |
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| 1943 Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (details not found) |
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