Paul Nash 1889-1946

On 11th May 1889 Paul Nash was born to William Harry Nash and Caroline Maude Jackson.

In 1910 [his mother] Caroline Maude Jackson died in a mental asylum.

1917. Paul Nash [aged 27]. "No. 19 Air Flight over Wytschaete".

1918. Paul Nash [aged 28]. "The Mule Track".

1918. Paul Nash [aged 28]. "The Ypres Salient at Night".

1918. Paul Nash [aged 28]. "We Are Making a New World".

1918. Paul Nash [aged 28]. "Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood".

1918. Paul Nash [aged 28]. "A Howitzer Firing".

1918. Paul Nash [aged 28]. "Beeches in the Wind".

1919. Paul Nash [aged 29]. "The Menin Road".

1923. Paul Nash [aged 33]. "The Shore".

1925-1937. Paul Nash [aged 35]. "Winter Sea".

On 31st December 1930 Gilbert Spencer [aged 38] and Margaret Ursula Bradshaw [aged 32] were married at Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington, London. John Northcote Nash [aged 37] was his best man.

1933. Paul Nash [aged 43]. Black and white negative, Avebury Stone.

1933. Paul Nash [aged 43]. Black and white negative, Stonehenge, study I.

1933. Paul Nash [aged 43]. Black and white negative, Avebury Sentinel. "Last summer I walked in a field near Avebury where two rough monoliths stand up … miraculously patterned with black and orange lichen, remnants of the avenue of stones which led to the Great Circle. In the hedge, at hand, the white trumpet of a convolvulus turns from its spiral stem, following the sun. In my art I would solve such an equation."

1933. Paul Nash [aged 43]. Black and white negative, Stonehenge, study I.

1935-1936. Paul Nash [aged 45]. Black and white negative, Martyr's Gate, Corfe Castle, Dorset [Map].

1935-1936. Paul Nash [aged 45]. Black and white negative, Martyr's Gate, Corfe Castle, Dorset [Map].

1935-1936. Paul Nash [aged 45]. Black and white negative, Corfe Castle, Dorset [Map].

1935-1936. Paul Nash [aged 45]. Black and white negative, Corfe Castle, Dorset [Map].

1936. Paul Nash [aged 46]. Avebury, 1936.

Around 1937. Paul Nash [aged 47]. Silbury Hill [Map].

1938. Paul Nash [aged 48]. Silbury Hill [Map].

1941. Paul Nash [aged 51]. "Battle of Britian".

1942. Paul Nash [aged 52]. Black and white negative, Stones at Avebury. "The great stones were in their wild state, so to speak. Some were half covered by the grass, others stood up in cornfields or were entangled and overgrown in the copses, some were buried under the turf. But they were wonderful and disquieting, and as I saw them then, I shall always remember them."

Around 1942. Paul Nash [aged 52]. Maiden Castle [Map].

Around 1942. Paul Nash [aged 52]. Maiden Castle [Map].

On 11th July 1946 Paul Nash [aged 57] died.