Barges

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

Subjects

fence, canal, barge/canal boat

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

John Northcote Nash (1893 - 1977)

Title

Barges

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 43.00 cm, width: 37.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from British American Tobacco, July 1958

Inscription

bl: John Nash

Provenance

Collection of solicitor and art collector Wilfred Ariel Evill (died 1963); from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works on behalf of British American Tobacco in September 1952 (and loaned to the Ministry of Works); from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in July 1958

GAC number

1901