John Nash 1893-1977
Wormingford Mill (The Stump)
oil on canvas
71 x 87 cm
28 x 34 1/4 in
28 x 34 1/4 in
signed
Although Nash loved to paint the foliage of trees, out of which he made such good shapes in his paintings, he also relished the more abrupt effect of dead wood....
Although Nash loved to paint the foliage of trees, out of which he made such good shapes in his paintings, he also relished the more abrupt effect of dead wood. As Ronald Blythe wrote in his book Outsiders: A Book of Garden Friends (2008): 'My old friend John Nash enjoyed a dead tree.... John's landscapes like to put in a little bareness in summer, a bony white branch here or there, a great slain trunk upright on the horizon, a stark poplar in July.' As he himself admitted, Nash liked the greater abstraction of dead trees and stumps. His paintings were always well-designed and this was largely because he was so good at identifying the abstract in nature. Here the sharply pyramidal stump acts as a focus and counterpoint to the flowing rhythms of the surrounding trees and water.
Andrew Lambirth
Andrew Lambirth
Provenance
Agnew's, LondonKensington Art Gallery (Rowley Gallery), London
Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham, May - June 1958 where purchased by John Picken, and by descent
Exhibitions
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, 1953, cat. no.62
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