Flood at Wormingford

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Nash, painter, wood engraver and illustrator was born in London, and was the younger brother of the British artist Paul Nash (1889–1946), with whom he shared his first exhibition at the Dorien Leigh Galleries in 1913. After serving with the Artists Rifles and working as Official War Artist between 1916 and 1918, John became the first art critic of the London Mercury magazine in 1919. He also taught art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art, London, during the 1920s and 30s. Although often associated with landscape painting, Nash was also a prolific book illustrator who specialised in botanical drawing and knowledge of plant types. Nash became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1940 and a full member in 1951. He was awarded a CBE in 1964. His retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1967 was the first for a living painter.

Places

England, Wormingford, Essex, River Stour, East Anglia

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, tree, flood, sun, hill, fence

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

John Northcote Nash (1893 - 1977)

Title

Flood at Wormingford

Date

1960

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's, 5 March 1980

Inscription

br: John Nash / 1960

Provenance

With Leicester Galleries; collection of Jeffrey Dell; sold through Sotheby's, London, 'Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture' sale, on 5 March 1980 (Lot 87); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

14961