An Avenue of Elms

Location

Country: Italy
City: Rome
Place: British Embassy

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

landscape C20th, London Group, tree, elm, road, path

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

John Northcote Nash (1893 - 1977)

Title

An Avenue of Elms

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 81.00 cm, width: 71.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnew's, February 1954

Inscription

none

Provenance

With Agnew’s Gallery, London; from whom purchased in February 1954

GAC number

2380