Mine Crater. Hill 60. December 1917

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road

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

France, Belgium

Subjects

topography, WW1 art, landscape C20th, tree, crater, World War I

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), lithograph

Artist

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)

Title

Mine Crater. Hill 60. December 1917

Date

December 1917

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

height: 38.50 cm, width: 47.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Editions Minotaure SA, January 1995

Inscription

below image: Mine Crater. Hill 60. / Paul Nash Dec. 1917

GAC number

16872