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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| United Kingdom | 20 |
| New Zealand | 2 |
| Canada | 2 |
| USA | 2 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, United Kingdom |
2 |
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Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
2 |
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National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Canada |
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Biography: 
11.5.1889 Born in Kensington, London, England (UK)
British landscape painter and wood engraver, the son of a lawyer. Nash was educated at St. Paul's School and then Slade School of art (unlike his younger brother John, who became an artist without formal training).
Nash's first one-man exhibition was shown in his final year at Slade, 1912. With a style said to be influenced variously by Cézanne and Blake, Nash's watercolours were nevertheless highly distinctive. During the First World War Nash enlisted in the Artists' Rifles in 1914, serving at Ypres on the Western Front. Nash continued to sketch in an unofficial capacity during this time, specialising in scenes of trench life. By 1916 Nash had reached the rank of lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment.
Invalided home in 1917 as a consequence of a non-military accident, Nash's artistic skills were put to use with his appointment as an official war artist following an exhibition of worked-up paintings of his earlier war sketches. His stark landscapes of the Western Front created a lasting impression; his paintings continue to be displayed today as representative of the reality of war, although Nash himself complained during the war of the restrictions placed upon his work by the requirements of the War Propaganda Bureau (WPB) managed by Charles Masterman. The primary work of the WPB was to represent the government's view in the form of pamphlets, articles, books, film - and in paintings. By the close of the war the WPB employed the services of more than 90 artists in this capacity.
From 1928 onwards Nash was increasingly influenced by surrealism and abstract art, a potent combination with his stark landscapes. He also worked as an illustrator and designer. Employed once again as a war artist in 1940 during the Second World War, Nash chose this time to depict the air war. Paul Nash died in Boscombe, Hampshire on 11 July 1946. His collected writings were published posthumously in a single volume in 1949.
11.7.1946 Died in Boscombe, HAM, England (UK)
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Public exhibitions 31
from 10.2.2010
until 10.1.2010
Solo shows 5
2004
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| Paul Nash - Earthly Powers: Paintings, Drawing and Prints from collections in th - Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham (England) |
2003
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| Paul Nash - Modern Artist, Ancient Landscape - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
1981
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| Paul Nash - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
1949
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| Paul Nash, 1889-1946: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1946
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| Paul Nash Memorial Exhibition: Drawings, Water Colours and Lithographs. - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
Group shows 24
2009
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| New Radicals: From Sickert to Freud - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England) |
2008
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| Ancient Landscapes - Pastoral Visions: Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists - SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England) |
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| Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939 - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Passed as Present - York Art Gallery, York (England) |
2007
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| Modern Britain 1900-1960 - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| The Poetry of Crisis, British Art 1933-1951 - Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries, London (England) |
2006
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| A Lighter Touch - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| V&A Purchase Fund Trail - Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (England) |
2005
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| An Aside: Selected by Tacita Dean - Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (Wales) |
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| Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art - SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England) |
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| Surrealism in Britain - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| A Picture of Britain - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| An Aside - Selected by Tacita Dean - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| A feeling for form - Modernism in British and New Zealand art - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| An Aside - Selected by Tacita Dean - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
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| Creative Tension - British Art 1900-1950 - The Fine Art Society - FAS, London (England) |
2004
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| 20th-century works of art from Osbert Sitwell's home - Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire (England) |
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| British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century - Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England) |
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| En Guerra - CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona |
2002
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| Rugby Collection & Art Works - Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, Warwickshire (England) |
2000
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| Drawing Distinctions - Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolours of the British Artists - The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg |
1991
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| A Painter's Place - Banks Head, Cumberland 1924-31 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
1990
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| Theatre on Paper - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
1927
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| Europäische Kunst der Gegenwart - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
| Dealer Directory 3 |
United Kingdom
| | James Hyman Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Richard Nagy, London (England)
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| | Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries, London (England)
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Public collections 17
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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New Zealand
| | Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch
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| | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
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South Africa
| | Durban Art Gallery, Durban
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United Kingdom
| | Ulster Museum, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
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| | Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham (England)
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| | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
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| | Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (England)
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| | Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (England)
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| | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England)
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| | Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (England)
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| | Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, Warwickshire (England)
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| | SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
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| | Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (England)
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