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John Nash (1893 - 1977)

On board, 1920’s

SKU: 6614
Pencil, pen and ink
3 3/4 x 5 in. (9.5 x 12.7 cm)
Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 9.5cm x Width – 12.7cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
Acquired directly from The Artist’s Estate

Nash achieved recognition as a landscape and still-life painter in oils and watercolours and was widely exhibited. He was also a fine wood engraver, and a founding member of the Society of Wood Engravers which was set up in 1920. Nash became a brilliant and prolific illustrator. The art of wood engraving was revived at the same time that private presses were springing up, and Nash was sought out by the Golden Cockerel Press, the Blackmore Press, and the Cresset Press among others.
Nash was never limited to one media, and later worked for the Curwen Press, producing colour autolithographs, and fine line drawings. Nash placed great emphasis upon the responsibility of the illustrator to the text in question. An illustrator’s role, he wrote, is not merely to make picture books but to convey by his illustrations an enhanced sense of the book and its impact on the artist’.
References: Horne, Alan. The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators: 106-107; J. Greenwood. The Wood engravings of John Nash, 1987


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THE ARTIST

John Nash
John
Nash
1893 - 1977

Painter, mainly of landscape, in oil and watercolours, wood engraver and illustrator. Born in London, the brother of the painter Paul Nash, he worked initially as a local journalist. Encouraged by Paul, he turned to art, remaining self-taught. He exhibited with his brother at the Dorien Leigh galleries, 1913, and had his first one-man show at the Goupil Gallery, 1921. By that time Nash was established as a member of the Friday Club, LG, and Cumberland Market Group. In 1914 he started to paint in oil and this, combined with his experience with the Artists’ Rifles, led to some fine pictures when he was made an Official War Artist in 1918. Oppy Wood, Evening, and Over the Top: The 1st Artists’ Rifles at Marcoing, both in the Imperial War Museum, are amongst the most memorable war images. Nash was also an Official War Artist during World War II, when he was attached to the Admiralty. Between the wars Nash established himself as an extremely fine painter of the English landscape using a style that was less dramatic than his brother Paul’s, but nevertheless winning the support and patronage of, amongst others, John Rothenstein. In 1937 he painted a mural for the Paris Exhibition. Nash taught at Ruskin School, Oxford, 1922-27, and for two long periods before and after World War II, at the Royal College of Art. Demobilised in 1944, he lived in a country cottage, Bottengoms Farmhouse, in Wormingford, near Colchester, where he developed his expertise as a plantsman and painted the East Anglian countryside. The Tate among many public galleries holds his work. In 1951 he was elected RA, where a major show of his work was held in 1967.

Selected literature
John Rothenstein, John Nash, Macdonald & Co., 1983.

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