john nash

medium

Original lithograph 49.5 x 76 cm printed by the Baynard Press in the 1940s.

biography

Nash has been described as an artist-plantsman - he chose to live in the country and was a country gentleman by habits, manner, values and interests. Harvesting is a theme he frequently used in his illustration; as early as 1915 he produced the oil painting Threshing. He described his own style as, while representational, being more concerned with underlying structures and patterns. In Harvesting the uncut wheat dominates the picture, in both colour and shape. Brenda reports that he was frustrated by having to do a harvest scene in winter with the snow on the ground, and perhaps that is why there is a lot of white in the print! (1983, Sir John Rothenstein, John Nash, Macdonald & Co)

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price

£250.00