Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/paul-nash-1690" aria-label="More by Paul Nash" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Paul Nash</a>
Behind Inn
Presented by the Daily Express 1927
architecture
England
England, East
England, Southern
fence
field
garden structures
Hertfordshire
hill
landscape
natural phenomena
places
shadow
shed
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
Whiteleaf, The Red Lion
wooded
<p>In the 1920s Paul Nash became emotionally attached to significant places which inspired sequences of works. He often visited the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, painting the woods and chalk downs which characterise the area. His brother John lived in Whiteleaf and Behind the Inn shows the view from the Red Lion pub in the village where Paul stayed on his visits. In the early 1920s Nash’s interest was purely in the landscape of the Chilterns, although he later became intrigued by the traces of human history on the land at sites like Whiteleaf Cross and Ivinghoe Beacon.</p><p><em>Gallery label, March 2018</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
23 July 2003 – 19 October 2003
2003-10-19
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2003-07-23
Paul Nash: Modern Artist, Ancient Landscape
Exhibition
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
24 October 2016 – 31 January 2018
2018-01-31
24 October 2016 – 5 March 2017
2017-03-05
2016-10-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
7 April 2017 – 20 August 2017
2017-08-20
2017-04-07
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
9 September 2017 – 31 January 2018
2018-01-31
2017-09-09
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2016-10-24
Paul Nash
Loan-out
26 October 2016 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
26 October 2016 – 5 March 2017
2017-03-05
2016-10-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
7 April 2017 – 20 August 2017
2017-08-20
2017-04-07
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
9 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
2017-09-09
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2016-10-26
Paul Nash
Exhibition
Behind the Inn
support: 635 × 762 mm
frame: 752 × 883 × 76 mm
Presented by the Daily Express 1927
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<p>In the 1920s Paul Nash became emotionally attached to significant places which inspired sequences of works. He often visited the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, painting the woods and chalk downs which characterise the area. His brother John lived in Whiteleaf and Behind the Inn shows the view from the Red Lion pub in the village where Paul stayed on his visits. In the early 1920s Nash’s interest was purely in the landscape of the Chilterns, although he later became intrigued by the traces of human history on the land at sites like Whiteleaf Cross and Ivinghoe Beacon.</p>
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<p><b>N04259</b> BEHIND THE INN 1919–22
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Paul Nash 1922’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 25×30 (63·5×76).
<br/>Presented by the <i>Daily Express</i> 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., January 1923 (17); <i>‘Daily Express’ Young Artists Exhibition</i>, R.B.A. Galleries, June 1927 (196).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>L'Amour de l'Art</i>, XV, 1934, p.461; <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations, British School</i>, 1938, p.105.</p>
<p>Although 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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> is dated 1922 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>photograph</span></a> in the collection made by the artist's wife and now in the V. &amp; A. Library bears the date 1919–22. This work, one of a number painted during this period of scenes in and around Whiteleaf, near Princes Risborough, shows the view from the Red Lion.</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
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture England England, East England, Southern fence field garden structures Hertfordshire hill landscape natural phenomena places shadow shed townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions Whiteleaf, The Red Lion wooded