Negatives of 1267 photographs taken by Paul Nash
1930–46
Available online are a set of photographs taken by Paul Nash. Paul Nash began working regularly with a camera in 1930 when he was forty-one, and continued until his death in 1946. His camera was an American-made No. 1A pocket Kodak series 2 - a present from his wife, Margaret, when he went to America in 1931. Many of his photographs show a similar interest in unusual compositions and the same sort of response to the beauty and mystery of the English landscape. They cover many topics from aerodromes, aircraft and aeroplane parts, animals, and archaeological sites and ruins to roads, rock studies, steps, trees, and walls. Nash would often use his photographs as source material for his paintings and direct connections can be made between these images and final artwork, such as the images of wrecked aircraft at Cowley dump, Oxford and the painting Totes Meer (Dead Sea) 1940-1 (Tate, N05717)
- Collection Owner
- Paul Nash 1889–1946
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Paul Nash Trust 1970
- Reference
- TGA 7050PH
1,268 objects in this collection
- Title
- Negatives of 1267 photographs taken by Paul Nash
- Date
- 1930–46
- Description
- Available online are a set of photographs taken by Paul Nash. Paul Nash began working regularly with a camera in 1930 when he was forty-one, and continued until his death in 1946. His camera was an American-made No. 1A pocket Kodak series 2 - a present from his wife, Margaret, when he went to America in 1931. Many of his photographs show a similar interest in unusual compositions and the same sort of response to the beauty and mystery of the English landscape. They cover many topics from aerodromes, aircraft and aeroplane parts, animals, and archaeological sites and ruins to roads, rock studies, steps, trees, and walls. Nash would often use his photographs as source material for his paintings and direct connections can be made between these images and final artwork, such as the images of wrecked aircraft at Cowley dump, Oxford and the painting Totes Meer (Dead Sea) 1940-1 (Tate, N05717)
- Reference
- TGA 7050PH
Showing 1,161–1,180 of 1,268 objects
Paul Nash Black and white negative, log piles beside a road
Paul Nash Black and white negative, tree trunks with a field in the background
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a dead tree trunk, fence and field
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a dead tree trunk, fence and field
Paul Nash Black and white negative, three trees, bright sunlight
Paul Nash Black and white negative, gnarled tree roots near a stream
Paul Nash Black and white negative, two tree trunks in a forest
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a tree trunk in a forest
Paul Nash Black and white negative, trees
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a dead tree in silhouette
Paul Nash Black and white negative, trees and fence, at the edge of a field
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a tree on a hill
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a tree trunk, disfigured
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a gnarled tree stump, and a brick bridge
Paul Nash Black and white negative, two tree trunks beside a lake
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a tree trunk, study I
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a tree trunk, with a fence behind
Paul Nash Black and white negative, tree wound
Paul Nash Black and white negative, a tree avenue, at a country house entrance