<i>Correspondence in the Imperial War Museum between Nash and the Ministry of Information reveal that the picture was</i>
<p>substantially complete towards the end of 1918 and that Nash planned, but did not execute, a lithograph from the design (IWM War Artists
Archive: IWM WW1 267A-6).<i><br></i>
image: a devastated landscape, pocked with rain-filled shell-holes. A shattered tree stands to the right, the tree and the
whole foreground dominated by a dense web of barbed wire. The sky is a dramatic contrast between white and purplish red coloured
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clouds.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Paul_Nash_(artist)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Paul Nash (artist)"><span title="British surrealist painter and war artist (1889-1946)">Paul Nash</span></a>
</bdi>
1918
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<td>This photograph <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20092">Art.IWM ART 2705</a> comes from the collections of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/">Imperial War Museums</a>.
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