Flight of the Magnolia
1944 · Oil paint on canvas
support: 511 x 762 x 22 mm frame: 687 x 942 x 85 mm
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Paul Nash
1889
PaintingSurrealism
Representation
None documented
7
Institutional Exhibitions
68
Works in Collection
89
Assets Indexed
2
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Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Surrealism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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The Cubist Imprint
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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Masters of British Painting, 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956
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Introduction to Modern Painting: Modern Posters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1941
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Britain at War
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1941
About
Why this artist matters now
Paul Nash was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art. Nash was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. He played a key role in the development of Modernism in English art.
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Representation & Collections
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Background
Education
Slade School of Fine Art
Visual Arts · 1910
Chelsea College of Art and Design
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St Paul's School
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