Oil paint on canvas
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<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>
Moat Grange Farm Kimble
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1939
anxiety
Buckinghamshire
desolation
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
England, South East
farmland
Kimble, Grange Farm
landscape
moat
natural phenomena
pessimism
places
reflection
tree
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
universal concepts
water: inland
<p>In this brooding landscape the trees and their tendril-like branches threaten to invade the viewer's space. The dark colours and evening light give the painting a claustrophobic atmosphere. Like his brother Paul, John Nash had served with the Artists' Rifles for two years before becoming an Official War Artist in 1918. This painting, completed soon after the war, is characterised by a sense of bleak desolation that suggests the profound introspection that for many followed the devastation of the war.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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 November 2012 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
30 November 2012
2012-11-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-11-30
Gallery 3
Collection based display
19 July 2014 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
19 July 2014 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
2014-07-19
Royal West of England Academy (Bristol, UK)
2014-07-19
Brothers in Art: John and Paul Nash
Loan-out
1 May 2021 – 23 January 2022
2022-01-23
1 May 2021 – 26 September 2021
2021-09-26
2021-05-01
Towner (Eastbourne, UK)
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
23 October 2021 – 23 January 2022
2022-01-23
2021-10-23
Compton Verney (Compton Verney, UK)
2021-05-01
John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace
Loan-out
The Moat, Grange Farm, Kimble
support: 762 × 508 mm
frame: 922 × 667 × 85 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1939
<p>In this brooding <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/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> the trees and  their tendril-like branches threaten to invade  the viewer's space. The dark colours and evening light give 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> a claustrophobic atmosphere. Like his brother Paul, John Nash had served with the Artists' Rifles for two years before becoming  an Official <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/war-artists" title="Glossary definition for 'War Artists'"><span>War Artist</span></a> in 1918. This painting, completed soon after the war, is characterised  by a sense of bleak desolation that suggests  the profound introspection that for many  followed the devastation of the war. </p>
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2004-08-31T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05037</b> THE MOAT, GRANGE FARM, KIMBLE <i>c.</i> 1922</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 30×20 (76×51).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1939.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. from the artist 1923.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> London Group, May–June 1922 (12); <i>Re-Opening Exhibition</i>, Liverpool, October–December 1933 (109, repr. pl.24), as ‘Canal - Bath’; (?) Empire Art Loan Collections Society, <i>Loan Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Engravings by Contemporary British Artists</i>, New Zealand and Australia, 1934–5, and Tate Gallery, October 1935 (156), as ‘The Canal, Bath’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> John Rothenstein, <i>Modern English Painters: Lewis to Moore</i>, 1956, p.243, repr. pl.22.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>C.A.S. Report 1919–24</i>, 1924, pl.3; Carlos Peacock, <i>Painters and Writers</i>, 1949, pl.89 (in colour).</p>
<p>On the back, over a rough preparation, there is a layout 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/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> for an oblong <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/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> with a road curving between hills; also the inscription, ‘John Nash The Canal, Bath’, which has led to confusion with another <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>, purchased by the C.A.S. at the <i>Goupil Gallery <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>Salon</span></a></i>, October–November 1926 (108), and presented to Bradford in 1930–1 (repr. <i>C.A.S. Report 1926</i>, 1927, p.2).</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
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
anxiety Buckinghamshire desolation emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas England England, South East farmland Kimble, Grange Farm landscape moat natural phenomena pessimism places reflection tree UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions universal concepts water: inland