Dymchurch

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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, Dymchurch, Kent

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, townscape/cityscape, river bank, river

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

Title

Dymchurch

Date

1923

Medium

Pencil and watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 22.80 cm, width: 36.60 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Roland, Browse & Delbanco, February 1976

Inscription

br: Paul Nash 1923 / Dymchurch

GAC number

12222