Watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-nash-1689" aria-label="More by John Nash" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Nash</a>
Cornfield
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1954
agriculture, gardening & fishing
branch
Buckinghamshire
Chalfont Common
England
England, South East
farmland
field
haystack
landscape
natural phenomena
objects
places
shadow
sheaf
sunshine
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
wooded
paper unique watercolour
10 February 2007 – 3 June 2007
2007-06-03
10 February 2007 – 3 June 2007
2007-06-03
2007-02-10
Buckinghamshire County Museum (Aylesbury, UK)
2007-02-10
Clear skies and storm clouds: Visions of Buckinghamshire between the Wars
Loan-out
30 March 2018 – 17 June 2018
2018-06-17
2 April 2018 – 17 June 2018
2018-06-17
2018-04-02
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2018-03-30
Ken's Show: Exploring the Unseen
Collection based display
The Cornfield
support: 187 × 270 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1954
<p><b>N06234</b> THE CORNFIELD 1918</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John Nash’ b.l.
<br/>Watercolour, 7 3/8×10 5/8 (18·75×27).
<br/>Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1954.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) London Group, April–May 1919 (79).</p>
<p>Executed in the summer of 1918 at Chalfont Common, a study from another angle of the cornfield that appears in the oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-the-cornfield-n06074" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06074</span></a>. In an annotated copy of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/london-group" title="Glossary definition for 'London Group'"><span>London Group</span></a> catalogue, April–May 1919, No.79 is marked as being a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
agriculture, gardening & fishing branch Buckinghamshire Chalfont Common England England, South East farmland field haystack landscape natural phenomena objects places shadow sheaf sunshine UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions weather wooded