Paul Nash

[1889-1946]

Painter, engraver and
designer for the theatre

Nash attended the Slade School of Fine Art, and became a member of the London Group in 1914. He enlisted in the Artists Rifles at the outbreak of the war and served in France, but was invalided home in 1917; however, he returned to the front as an official war artist. Lawrence had met Nash after the war, and bought his first sea painting to hang in the Colonial Office. He then asked him to produce a number of illustrations, working from Lawrence's own photographs. Nash records in his autobiography (1) that one day Lawrence turned up at his home with a collection of some two hundred to sift through. Nash finally did five landscapes - A garden [line], Dhat el Haj [pen and wash] and The prophet's tomb [line], which were printed within the text, and two pen and wash studies, Waterfall and Mountains, for the group of illustrations following the text.

1	Outline, Faber, 1949, p 219

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