Papers and correspondence of John Nash
1591–1980

The collection consists of correspondence on personal and business matters; artwork; writings; papers relating to sales, commissions, teaching and organisational matters; personal papers; photographs and printed material. The collection includes a significant amount of material relating to his wife, Christine Nash including correspondence, writings and artwork. The Carrington Papers within this collection were given to Nash's executors by Noel Carrington and are primarily correspondence from John, Paul and Christine Nash to Carrington. The Francis Unwin material was probably given to Christine Nash by his wife, Mary after his death in 1925.
- Collection Owner
- John Nash 1893–1977
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- The collection was presented to the Archive by the executors of John Nash in 1989.
- Reference
- TGA 8910
96 objects in this collection
- Title
- Correspondence of Christine Nash
- Date
- 1915–77
- Reference
- TGA 8910/8
Showing 21–40 of 54 objects
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Illustrated letter from John Nash to Christine Nash concerning his experiences in the army and mentioning [William] Marchant
[9 January 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Illustrated letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about his work for the Friday Club, his work ‘The Viaduct’ c. 1916, and his works being sent to the U.S.A.
[29 January 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash
[3 March 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about Roger Fry, the Friday Club, and Paul Nash
[3 April 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about Hamilton Hay and a reproduction of ‘The Viaduct’ c. 1916
[7 April 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about work for the London Group and a New English Art Club exhibition
[23 April 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Illustrated letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about ‘The Viaduct’ c. 1916
[30 April 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about his bid for a commission and his work ‘in a cart track behind Sinodun leading toward Whittenham Clumps’
[3 May 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Illustrated letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about Carrington and letter to Claughton Pellew, with illustration
[7 May 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about commissions, with an illustration of Nash and a French General
[14 May 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about his ‘comic men’, with an illustration of a landscape
[31 May 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about his experiences on the front line and his promotion to Lance Corporal
[c.June 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about Paul Nash being injured
[10 June 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash concerning his move to the front line, his ‘comic men’, and Paul Nash
[15 June 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about his work as a platoon bombing instructor and Harold Gilman
[26 June 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash
[28 July 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash
[28 July 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash about Paul Nash, with an illustration of John Nash
[6 August 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash concerning his return from the front, his thoughts on the possibility of expectation of a commission, the sale of ‘Canal’, and Paul Nash
[23 August 1917]
John Nash, recipient: Christine Nash Letter from John Nash to Christine Nash
[2 September 1917]