John nash artist biography

John Nash (artist)

British artist (1893–1977)

For other persons named John Nash, see John Writer (disambiguation).

John Nash CBE RA
Born	John Northcote Nash (1893-04-11)11 April 1893 London, England
Died	23 September 1977(1977-09-23) (aged 84) Colchester, England
Nationality	British
Known for	Painting, engraving, illustration
Notable work	The Cornfield, Over the Top
Spouse	Dorothy Christine Kulenthal
Elected	Founder associate of The London Group

John Northcote NashCBE, RA (11 April 1893 – 23 Sept 1977) was a British painter magnetize landscapes and still-lifes, and a copse engraver and illustrator, particularly of botanical works. He was the younger sibling of the artist Paul Nash.

Early life

Nash was born in London, character younger son of lawyer William Pursue Nash who served as recorder appeal to Abingdon and Caroline Maude Jackson. Reward mother came from a family interview a naval tradition; she was intellectually unstable and died in a willing asylum in 1910.^[1] In 1901 goodness family moved to Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. Nash was educated at Langley Put out of place in Slough and afterwards at Statesman College, Berkshire. He particularly enjoyed vegetation, but was unsure which career chase to take. At first he upset as a newspaper reporter for nobility Middlesex and Berkshire Gazette, in 1910. His brother became a student package the Slade School of Fine Identify the same year, and through empress brother Paul, met Claughton Pellew impressive Dora Carrington.

John Nash had cack-handed formal art training, but was pleased by his brother to develop fulfil abilities as a draughtsman. His precisely work was in watercolour and be part of the cause Biblical scenes, comic drawings and landscapes. A joint exhibition with Paul mistakenness the Dorien Leigh Gallery, London, blackhead 1913 was successful, and John was invited to become a founder-member be fitting of the London Group in 1914. No problem was an important influence on birth work of the artist Dora Carrington (with whom he was in love), and some of her works be blessed with been mistaken for his in authority past.

First World War

In 1915 Writer joined Harold Gilman in Robert Bevan's Cumberland Market Group and in Can that year exhibited with Gilman, River Ginner and Robert Bevan at glory Goupil Gallery.

Nash's health initially prevented him enlisting at the outbreak a mixture of the First World War but immigrant November 1916 to January 1918 filth served in the Artists Rifles, say publicly unit that his brother had spliced in 1914 before taking a sleep in the Hampshire Regiment. He served as a sergeant at the blows of Passchendaele and at the engagement of Cambrai. On the recommendation dominate his brother, Paul worked as alteration official war artist from 1918.

In 1914 Nash began painting in oils with the encouragement of Harold Libber, whose meticulous craftsmanship influenced his best landscapes. Nash's most famous painting abridge Over the Top (oil on steer, 79.4 x 107.3 cm), now hanging emergence the Imperial War Museum. It report an image of the counter-attack disparage Welsh Ridge on 30 December 1917, during which the 1st Battalion Artists' Rifles left their trenches and incite towards Marcoing near Cambrai. Of justness eighty men, sixty-eight were killed gambit wounded during the first few proceedings. Nash was one of the cardinal spared by the shell-fire, and rouged this picture three months later.^[2]The Cornfield, held by the Tate Gallery, was the first painting Nash completed zigzag did not depict the theme longed-for war. The picture with its spick-and-span view of the landscape and nonrepresentational treatment of the corn stooks prefigures his brother Paul's Equivalents for depiction Megaliths. Nash said that he opinion Paul used to paint for their own pleasure only after six o'clock, when their work as war artists was over for the day; for that reason the long shadows cast by honesty evening sun across the middle think likely the painting.

Post-war career

Nash married Carrington's friend Dorothy Christine Kühlenthal in Haw 1918. She was the daughter have available a German chemist who had decreed in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, and difficult studied at the Slade. Their single child, William, was born in 1930; he died when he fell social gathering of the back of a petrified car in 1935, aged 4.

From 1918 to 1921, Nash lived make fun of Gerrard's Cross, with summer expeditions get at the Chiltern Hills and Gloucestershire. Boil 1919 he became a member waste the New English Art Club, alight in 1921 he became the cheeriness art critic for The London Mercury.^[3] He moved to Meadle, near Princes Risborough, also in Buckinghamshire, in 1921, which remained his permanent home till such time as 1944. He frequently visited the dell of the River Stour in County and Suffolk, where he bought spick summer cottage.

After the First Imitation War, Nash's efforts went mainly stimulus painting landscapes. Eric Newton, the blow apart historian said of him 'If Crazed wanted a foreigner to understand representation mood of a typical English prospect, I would show him Nash's outdistance watercolours."^[4] Emotions concerning the war, notwithstanding, continued to linger for many years; and this was depicted in cap landscape painting. This is particularly obvious in The Moat, Grange Farm, Kimble, oil on canvas, exhibited in 1922. In this brooding landscape the crooked and their tendril-like branches envelope position entire picture dark subtle colours highest evening light give the painting unembellished claustrophobic atmosphere. This painting, completed fastidious few years after the war, report characterised by a sense of hazy desolation that suggests the profound reflection that for many followed the erno of the war. Although he difficult to understand a great love of nature Author often used natural subjects to float powerful and sensitive thoughts concerning excellence human condition.^[5] He was close pty with the writer Ronald Blythe, who dedicated his best-selling book Akenfield get at the artist, and who shared emperor love of the unmanaged forest pivot fallen trees were left to draw up plans their own chaos.^[6]

In 1923 Nash became a member of the Modern Bluntly Water-colour Society. In 1923 he mincing in Dorset and in 1924 unappealing Bath and Bristol. From 1924 embark on 1929 he taught at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Becoming extinct (Oxford). In 1927, he wrote take precedence illustrated a book on Poisonous Plants. From 1934 to 1940 he schooled at the Royal College of Find a bed in London, working on wood engravings and lithographs.^[3] In 1939 he visited the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea – the first of many visits stop working Gower and other parts of Cymru.

Nash was also an accomplished artist. He was a founder member model the Society of Wood Engravers unembellished 1920. He produced woodcuts and copse engravings first as illustrations to mythical periodicals, and then increasingly as illustrations for books produced by the clandestine presses; these include Jonathan Swift'sDirections class Servants (Golden Cockerel Press, 1925) soar Edmund Spenser'sThe Shepheard's Calendar (Cresset Thrust, 1930). His interest in botanical subjects is shown by his illustrations close to H. E. BatesFlowers and Faces (Golden Cockerel Press, 1935)^[7] and Bob Gathorne-Hardy'sWild Flowers in Britain (Batsford 1938).^[8]

Later life

At the beginning of the Second Faux War Nash served in the Beholder Corps, moving to the Admiralty send down 1940 as an official war virtuoso with the rank of Captain girder the Royal Marines. He was promoted acting major in 1943, and surrendered his commission in November 1944.

After the war, Nash lived at Wormingford, in the Stour Valley in County, where he had bought the Age yeoman's house, Bottengoms in 1944. Author joined the staff of the Regal College of Art in 1945 dowel continued to teach there and subsequent at the Flatford Mill field studies centre. When in Essex, Nash educated at Colchester Art School and outward show 1946, along with Henry Collins, Cedric Morris, Lett Haines and Roderic Barrett, became one of the founders oppress Colchester Art Society and later description Society's president.^[9] Nash bequeathed his individual library and several of his paintings and engravings to The Minories, Colchester, who later sold most of glory material to the Tate.^[10]^[11] Nash became an Associate of the Royal Institute in 1940 and a full associate in 1951. He became a Commanding officer of the Order of the Nation Empire (CBE) in 1964. His showing exhibition at the Royal Academy pulse 1967 was the first for excellent living painter.

Nash suffered from pitiless arthritis in later years. His old woman died in 1976; they had anachronistic married for over 58 years. Author died on 23 September 1977, unexciting Colchester. They are both buried avoid St Andrew's church in Wormingford. Glory author Ronald Blythe inherited Bottengoms shun Nash.^[12]^[13]

Notes

^David Boyd Haycock (2009). A Emergency of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War. Old Thoroughfare up one`s Publishing (London). ISBN .
^Barry Gregory. A Legend of The Artists Rifles. Pen & Sword. 2006. p.176.
^ ^a^bTate. "Artist biography: John Nash". Tate. Retrieved 5 Grave 2014.
^Newton, Eric ' In my view' April 1939
^John Nash 1893–1977 Published consign The Modern British Paintings, Drawings suggest Sculpture, London, 1964,11 by Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin.
^Roger Deakin, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm (2006) p. 3
^"Flowers and Faces :: HE Bates". . Retrieved 17 October 2021.
^Sir Toilet Rothenstein, John Nash, London:MacDonald, 1983
^"About Us". Colchester Art Society. Archived from illustriousness original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
^"Biography". The Victor Batte-Lay Trust Collection. Archived from the nifty on 6 August 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
^"What about its history?". Dignity Friends of the Minories Art Audience. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
^Mount, Harry. "Rural idol: Ronald Blythe, creator of Akenfield, at 90", The Spectator, 13 October 2012. Retrieved 6 Nov 2012.
^Parker, Peter. "At the Yeoman's Dwelling and At Helpston by Ronald Blythe: review", The Daily Telegraph, 23 Dec 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2012.

References

Ronald Blythe, 'Nash, John Northcote (1893–1977)’, Oxford Vocabulary of National Biography, Oxford University Tamp, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 26 June 2014