Oil paint on canvas
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Grotto in Snow
Purchased 1940
architecture
England
folly
garden
garden structures
Hampstead, Eldon Road
house
places
residential
seasons
snow
tree
UK countries and regions
UK London
weather
winter
painting oil paint canvas
20 February 2007 – 24 June 2007
2007-06-24
20 February 2007 – 24 June 2007
2007-06-24
2007-02-20
Museum of the Home (London, UK)
http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
2007-02-20
Homes and Gardens Part 3: The Twentieth Century 1914-1960
Loan-out
14 October 2017 – 31 January 2021
2021-01-31
14 October 2017 – 31 January 2021
2021-01-31
2017-10-14
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2017-10-14
Modern Art and St Ives
Collection based display
Grotto in the Snow
support: 718 × 489 mm
frame: 856 × 629 × 84 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05254</b> GROTTO IN THE SNOW 1939</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Paul Nash’ c.r.
<br/>Canvas, 28 1/4×19 1/4 (72×49).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
Tate Gallery, March–May 1948 (51).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Bertram, 1955, p.233.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Read, 1944, pl.23 (in colour).</p>
<p>Painted in the garden of the artist's house, 3 Eldon Road, Hampstead. Bertram sees the grotto as symbolizing a refuge.</p>
<p>A version in <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>, 22×15 in., belongs to Mrs James Fell and was exhibited at Leeds, 1943 (62). Two other watercolours of the grotto, not specified as snow scenes, were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, May–June 1938 (21 and 29; see Eates, 1948, p.55), but both 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> and Mrs Fell's watercolour are dated 1939 on 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/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> in the Nash Collection at the V. &amp; 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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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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architecture England folly garden garden structures Hampstead, Eldon Road house places residential seasons snow tree UK countries and regions UK London weather winter