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For further information and enquiries about Paul Nash and his association with Dorset and
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This project was part funded by Arts University Bournemouth, a leading specialist arts university located in Dorset, UK
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CreditsPaul Nash Paintings and Drawings Event on the Downs 1934 Government Art Collection Mineral Objects 1935 Yale Center for British Art Sea Wall, Swanage 1935 Piano Nobile Gallery, London Landscape from a Dream 1936-38 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton Ballard from Scarbank 1937 Dorset County Museum, Kimmeridge Folly (Clavell Tower) 1937 British Council Swanage 1937 Tate Circle of the Monoliths 1937 Leeds Museum and Art Galleries Maiden Castle 1937 Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, University of Vermont Stone Sea 1937 Private Collection Raider on the Shore 1940 Glasgow Art Gallery Down in the Channel 1941 National Gallery of South Africa, Cape town Maiden Castle 1943 Stephen Ongpin Fine Arts Photographs Paul Nash by Helen Muspratt © National Portrait Gallery, London Paul Nash in studio © Estate of Felix H. Man / National Portrait Gallery, London Paul Nash sketching c.1940 Tate Archive All other photographs by Paul Nash, with credit and thanks to the Tate Gallery Archive and Collections Drone operator: Rich Tarr We would also like to acknowledge and thank all those who provided us with invaluable information for this research project, and those owners of works in private collections referred to on this website.
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Relevant LinksPaul Nash and the Wittenham Clumps https://www.nashclumps.org/index.html Paul Nash at the Tate Gallery, London https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/paul-nash-1889-1946-memorial-exhibition Paul Nash and World War one https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20070 Dorset Museum https://www.dorsetmuseum.org/ Poole Museum http://www.poolemuseum.org.uk/ Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum https://russellcotes.com/ Paul Gough Vortex website and gallery https://www.paulgough.org/index.htm Paul Gough research publications https://aub-uk.academia.edu/PaulGough https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Gough-3/research https://research.aub.ac.uk/view/creators/Gough=3APaul=3A=3A.html
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Paul Nash in Dorset LinksAnon, Paul Nash and Swanage, The Tate Gallery Report 1972-1974, London 1975 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-swanage-t01771 Pennie Denton, Paul Nash and the Blue Pool, May 2013 https://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2013/05/paul-nash-and-the-blue-pool/ Leigh Hatts, Paul Nash and Boscombe, October 2016 https://www.bournemouthcoastpath.org.uk/2016/10/25/tate-show-marks-anniverary-of-paul-nashs-death-at-boscombe/ Lydia Rose, Surrealist Swanage: Paul Nash, June 2018 https://www.symondsandsampson.co.uk/blog/detail/surrealist-swanage-paul-nash James Russell, Landscape from a Dream, September 2015 https://jamesrussellontheweb.blogspot.com/2015/09/paul-nash-landscape-from-dream.html Anna Reid, ‘Paul Nash’s Geological Enigma’, British Art Studies, November, 2018 https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/index/article-index/nash-geological-enigma/article-category/article
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By Paul NashNash, Paul (1936) Dorset: Shell Guide. London: Architectural Press. Nash, Paul (1936) “The Object”. The Architectural Review (November): 207–208. Nash, Paul (1937) “The Nest of Wild Stones”. In Myfanwy Evans (ed.), The Painter’s Object. London: Gerald Howe, 38–40. Nash, Paul (1949) “Aerial Flowers”. In Herbert Read (ed.), Outline, an Autobiography and Other Writings. London: Faber & Faber, 258–265. Nash, Paul (1949) “Unseen Landscapes”. In Herbert Read (ed.), Outline, an Autobiography and Other Writings. London: Faber & Faber, 229–231. Nash, Paul (1948) Outline: An Autobiography and Other Writings, with a preface by Herbert Read (London: Faber and Faber, 1948). Nash, Paul (2000) “The Life of the Inanimate Object”. In Andrew Causey (ed.), Paul Nash: Writings on Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 137–139.
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Research MaterialAbbot, Claude C. and Bertram, Anthony (eds.), Poet and Painter: Being the Correspondence between Gordon Bottomley and Paul Nash, 1910-1946 (London: Oxford University Press, 1955). Beal, Mary, 'Paul Nash's "Event on the Downs" reconsidered', Burlington Magazine, November 1989. Bertram, Anthony, Paul Nash, the Portrait of an Artist (London: Faber and Faber, 1955). Blythe, Ronald, First Friends, (London: Viking, 1997). Boyd Haycock, David, Paul Nash (London: Tate, 2002). Cardinal, Roger, The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (London: Reaktion, 1989). Causey, Andrew, Paul Nash (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980). Causey, Andrew, Paul Nash: Writings on Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Causey, Andrew, Unit One (19933-1935) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press; online edition, September 2012. Causey, Andrew, Paul Nash: Landscape and the Life of Objects (London: Lund Humphries, 2013). Chambers, Emma (ed.) Paul Nash (London, Tate Publishing, 2016) Colvin, Clare, John Nash : Book Designs, (The Minories, 1986). Cork, Richard, A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994). Digby, George Wingfield, Meaning and Symbol in Three Modern Artists (London: Faber and Faber, 1955) Eates, Margot, The Master of the Image 1889-1946 (London: John Murray, 1973). Foss, Brian, War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945, (Yale: Yale University Press, 2007. Fraser Jenkins, David, Paul Nash: The Elements (London: Scala, 2010). Freer, Allen, John Nash ‘The Delighted Eye’ (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993). Gough, Paul, A Terrible Beauty: British Artists in the First World War, (Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2010). Gough, Paul, Cultivating Dead Trees; The Legacy of Paul Nash as an Artist of Trauma, Wilderness and Recovery, Journal of War and Cultural Studies, Vol.4, No.3, 2011. Gough, Paul, Brothers in Arms: John and Paul Nash at War, (Bristol and London: Sansom & Company, 2014). Hall, Charles, Paul Nash: Aerial Creatures (London: Lund Humphries. 1996). Haycock, David Boyd, ‘A Crisis of Brilliance’: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (London: Old Street, 2010). King, James, Interior Landscapes: A Life of Paul Nash (London: George Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1987). Lambirth, Andrew, John Nash, Public Catalogue Foundation, October 2012. Lewis, John, John Nash: the Painter as Illustrator, with a foreword by Wilfred Blunt (London : The Pendomer Press, 1978). Malvern, Sue, Modern Art, Britain and the Great War: Witnessing, Testimony and Remembrance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). Salis, John and Montague, C. E. British Artists at the Front. No. 3. Paul Nash (London: Country Life and George Newnes, 1918). Montague, Jemima (ed.) Paul Nash: Modern Artist, Ancient Landscape (London: Tate, 2003). Nash, Margaret (ed.) Fertile Image (London: Faber and Faber, 1951). Nash, Paul, Outline: An Autobiography and Other Writings, with a preface by Herbert Read (London: Faber and Faber, 1948). Newton, Eric, Paul Nash Memorial Exhibition, exhibition cat, (London: Tate, 1948). Postan, Alexander, The Complete Graphic Work of Paul Nash (London. Secker & Warburg. 1973). Read, Herbert (ed.) (1934) Unit One: the modern movement in English architecture, painting and sculpture. London: Cassell. Read, Herbert, Paul Nash (London: Penguin, 1944). Reid, Anna, (2018) “The Nest of Wild Stones: Paul Nash’s Geological Realism”, Visual Culture in Britain 19, no. 2: 189–215. Ross, Alan, Colours of War: War Art 1939 - 45 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1983). Rothenstein, John, Modern English Painters, Volume Two: Lewis to Moore, (London: Eyre and Spooiswoode,1956) Rothenstein, John, John Nash, (London: Macdonald and Co, 1983). Russell, James, Paul Nash in Pictures: Landscape and Dream (The Mainstone Press, 2011). Wilcox, Denys J., Rupert Lee: Painter, Sculptor & Printmaker (Bristol : Sansom & Company, 2010). York, Malcolm, The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and their Times (London: Constable, 1988).
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ExhibitionsA full list of exhibitions by Paul Nash is available on-line at http://www.ernestbrownandphillips.ltd.uk/Artists/artists_bio_id=3.html
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BooksPaul Gough, A Terrible Beauty: British Artists in the First World War, (Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2010). The work of Britain’s war artists has been well documented, but Dr Paul Gough’s penetrating survey throws new light on their motivations, responses to the conflict and their unique, and widely varying, interpretations of the effects on the combatants. His book provides new insights into the work of the major and lesser-known artists of the First World War, including David Bomberg, Muirhead Bone, Sidney Jones, Henry Lamb, Adrian Hill, Paul Maze, John Nash, Paul Nash, Nevinson, Orpen, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, Stanley Spencer, Harold Williamson and Wyndham Lewis. Magnificent images from the collection of The Imperial War Museum, Tate Britain and other public collections. ISBN: 978-1-906593-00-1 Author(s): Paul Gough Year published: November 2010 Publisher: Sansom & Company Total Pages: 288 Illustrations: Illustrated in colour throughout https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terrible-Beauty-British-Artists-First/dp/1906593000 Paul Gough, Brothers in Arms: John and Paul Nash at War, (Bristol and London: Sansom & Company, 2014). When brothers John and Paul Nash held their first exhibition in 1913 at the Dorien Leigh Gallery in South Kensington, London they were regarded as equally talented and equally ambitious, even though it had been Paul who had studied at the Slade School of Art amongst an extraordinary cohort of young British artists, and John was regarded as an untutored youngster with a flair for capturing the essence of the English landscape. As war broke their fortunes diverted: Paul achieved instant recognition as an Official War Artist, while John withstood the terrors of the trenches as an infantryman. In 1918 they came together again, painting side by side in an old herb barn to conjure up their searing visions of the Western Front. Once these were finished and exhibited to wide acclaim, they went their different ways. This book explores the work of the two brothers; their family roots in London and Buckinghamshire; the difficult and dark days of their schooling; their divergent early careers and time in the trenches; the moments when they came together to share a show or studio, and also the long periods where their fortune fared so differently, Paul to achieve international recognition as a Modern artist as well as a profoundly English one, while John went quietly about his southern haunts painting the countryside, studying plants and diligently engraving dozens of illustrations. Developing themes first explored in his book about British war artists, A Terrible Beauty, Paul Gough relates the fascinating story of the Nash brothers, illustrators, soldiers, and artists. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol https://pallantbookshop.com/product/brothers-in-arms-john-and-paul-nash/ ISBN: 9781908326522 Author(s): Paul Gough Year published: July 2014 Publisher: Sansom & Company Total Pages: 128 Illustrations: Illustrated in colour throughout
Books
Paul Gough, A Terrible Beauty: British Artists in the First World War, (Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2010).
The work of Britain’s war artists has been well documented, but Dr Paul Gough’s penetrating survey throws new light on their motivations, responses to the conflict and their unique, and widely varying, interpretations of the effects on the combatants. His book provides new insights into the work of the major and lesser-known artists of the First World War, including David Bomberg, Muirhead Bone, Sidney Jones, Henry Lamb, Adrian Hill, Paul Maze, John Nash, Paul Nash, Nevinson, Orpen, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, Stanley Spencer, Harold Williamson and Wyndham Lewis.
Magnificent images from the collection of The Imperial War Museum, Tate Britain and other public collections.
ISBN: 978-1-906593-00-1
Author(s): Paul Gough
Year published: November 2010
Publisher: Sansom & Company
Total Pages: 288
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour throughout
Paul Gough, Brothers in Arms: John and Paul Nash at War, (Bristol and London: Sansom & Company, 2014).
When brothers John and Paul Nash held their first exhibition in 1913 at the Dorien Leigh Gallery in South Kensington, London they were regarded as equally talented and equally ambitious, even though it had been Paul who had studied at the Slade School of Art amongst an extraordinary cohort of young British artists, and John was regarded as an untutored youngster with a flair for capturing the essence of the English landscape.
As war broke their fortunes diverted: Paul achieved instant recognition as an Official War Artist, while John withstood the terrors of the trenches as an infantryman. In 1918 they came together again, painting side by side in an old herb barn to conjure up their searing visions of the Western Front. Once these were finished and exhibited to wide acclaim, they went their different ways.
This book explores the work of the two brothers; their family roots in London and Buckinghamshire; the difficult and dark days of their schooling; their divergent early careers and time in the trenches; the moments when they came together to share a show or studio, and also the long periods where their fortune fared so differently, Paul to achieve international recognition as a Modern artist as well as a profoundly English one, while John went quietly about his southern haunts painting the countryside, studying plants and diligently engraving dozens of illustrations.
Developing themes first explored in his book about British war artists, A Terrible Beauty, Paul Gough relates the fascinating story of the Nash brothers, illustrators, soldiers, and artists.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
ISBN: 9781908326522
Author(s): Paul Gough
Year published: July 2014
Publisher: Sansom & Company
Total Pages: 128
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour throughout