Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Whitehall

Born in London, Christopher R. W. Nevinson studied at St John's Wood and Slade Schools of Art. In 1912 he studied in Paris for a year. In 1914 he co-founded the London Group and issued a Futurist manifesto, ‘Vital English Art’ with Filippo Marinetti. In the First World War Nevinson served abroad with the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1915 he participated in exhibitions of war art and Vorticism in London. His solo show at the Leicester Galleries (1916) received great acclaim. Nevinson became an Official War Artist in 1917. In the late 1930s, he was created Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur and an Associate of the Royal Academy. Suffering deep depression after the Second World War, he died in London in 1946.

Places

Subjects

biplane, aeroplane, topography, WW1 art, landscape C20th, tree, cloud, river, propaganda, World War I, field, road, furrow, bridge (rural), farm

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889 - 1946)

Title

Building Aircraft: In the Air

Series Title

The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals

Edition

from an edition of 200

Date

published 1919

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

height: 47.70 cm, width: 37.80 cm

Acquisition

origin uncertain

Provenance

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

GAC number

18505