Paul Nash

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Paul Nash

by Bassano Ltd
vintage print, 29 April 1918
7 3/8 in. x 5 3/8 in. (187 mm x 135 mm) image size
Given by Martin Shaw, 1961
Photographs Collection
NPG x4084

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  • Paul Nash (1889-1946), Artist. Sitter in 32 portraits, Artist or producer of 1 portrait.

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  • Bassano Ltd (active 1901-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 42746 portraits.

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  • Moorhouse, Paul; Faulks, Sebastian (essay), The Great War in Portraits, 2014 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 27 February - 15 June 2014), p. 126 Read entry

    Painter, Paul Nash (1889-1946) attended the Slade School of Fine Art in 1910. Subsequently turning to nature as his subject, his first exhibition was held in London in 1912. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Artists' Rifles, being commissioned in the Hampshire Regiment in 1916. Injured while serving on the Western Front, he was invalided home and, while recuperating, made ink drawings of his experiences. A successful exhibition of these works led to his appointment as official war artist and he returned to the front. His painting We are Making a New World (1918) is a powerful indictment of the war's desctructiveness.

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Despite the suspension of the Suffrage movement during the war, the Government finally agrees to grant women the right to vote as recognition of their vital role in the war effort. However, The Representation of the People Act only extended the franchise to female householders and university graduates over 30. Equal rights to men were not granted until 1928.

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War Poet, Wilfred Owen, is killed in action just a week before the end of the war. His poems, including Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth, tell of the horror of war in the trenches and the tragic loss of a generation of young men who enthusiastically signed up to fight in a war that became seen as futile rather than glorious.

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British representative, Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, signs the Armistice calling a ceasefire on the 11th November 1918 and ending the war. Germany and Austria loose their empires and become republics. Around the same time a global flu pandemic brakes out - known in England as Spanish Flu - killing 50-100 million people within a year compared to 15 million fatalities from the four years of war.

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