Location

Country: USA
City: Washington DC
Place: British Embassy

John Nash, painter, wood engraver and illustrator, was born in London. He was the younger brother of British artist, Paul Nash (1889-1946) with whom he shared his first exhibition at the Dorien Leigh Galleries (London, 1913). After serving with the Artists Rifles during the First World War and working as Official War Artist from 1916 to 1918, John Nash became the first art critic of the ‘London Mercury’ magazine in 1919. During the 1920s and 1930s he taught at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art, London. Although more often associated with landscape painting, Nash was also a prolific book illustrator who specialised in botanical drawing and had developed a great knowledge of plant types since childhood.

Places

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, grass, tree, cliff, woodland

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

John Northcote Nash (1893 - 1977)

Title

Wooded Cliff above the Saltings

Date

1949

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 43.00 cm, width: 55.00 cm

Acquisition

Presented by the Hon. Mrs Wood, November 1950

Inscription

br: John Nash

Provenance

Purchased from Agnew 1950 by the Hon. Mrs Wood and presented to the Ministry of Works for the Ambassador's Residence, Washington, where her uncle Lord Bryce was HM Ambassador 1907-13.

GAC number

1197