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Negatives of 1267 photographs taken by Paul Nash

1930–46

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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

  • Negatives of 1267 photographs taken by Paul Nash

    1,268 Objects

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

Black and white negative, log piles beside a road

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, tree trunks with a field in the background

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a dead tree trunk, fence and field

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a dead tree trunk, fence and field

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, three trees, bright sunlight

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, gnarled tree roots near a stream

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, two tree trunks in a forest

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a tree trunk in a forest

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, trees

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a dead tree in silhouette

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, trees and fence, at the edge of a field

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a tree on a hill

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a tree trunk, disfigured

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a gnarled tree stump, and a brick bridge

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, two tree trunks beside a lake

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a tree trunk, study I

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a tree trunk, with a fence behind

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, tree wound

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a tree avenue, at a country house entrance

Paul Nash
date not known

Black and white negative, a study of the bark on an oak tree

Paul Nash
date not known
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