John Nash

The Cornfield

1918

Not on display

Artist: John Nash 1893–1977
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 187 × 270 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1954
Reference: N06234

Catalogue entry

N06234 THE CORNFIELD 1918

Inscr. ‘John Nash’ b.l.
Watercolour, 7 3/8×10 5/8 (18·75×27).
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1954.
Exh: (?) London Group, April–May 1919 (79).

Executed in the summer of 1918 at Chalfont Common, a study from another angle of the cornfield that appears in the oil painting N06074. In an annotated copy of the London Group catalogue, April–May 1919, No.79 is marked as being a watercolour.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II