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JOHN NASH Cotswold Landscape
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John Nash is a major figure in the Romantic tradition of English landscape painting. While Nash was aware of artistic trends in Europe, in his use of color and design he had a shared sensibility with Samuel Palmer's work of a century earlier. Like Palmer, one of Nash's goals as a painter was to capture the spirit of the natural world in his work. A self-taught painter, Nash was encourage to become an artist by his elder brother, Paul, also a distinguished painter. John Nash's first exhibition was in 1913, when he was twenty years old. Two years later he was showing with Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group. The painter served in France during World War I as a war artist. Following the War, John Nash supported himself by teaching and writing art criticism. Nash cultivated an extremely personal style. In Cotswold Landscape the compositional diagonals formed by the Cotswold stone wall and the shadow in the foreground are counter-balanced by the vertical of the tree at the right and the horizon line. |
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Ivan Le Lorraine Albright Robert Salmon |
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