John Nash: Artist & Countryman

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John Nash (18931977) is the quintessential twentieth-century painter of the English countryside. Nash began as a watercolour painter, and the medium remained his mainstay throughout a long career. He also worked regularly in oil paint and was an immensely skilled draughtsman and wood engraver. A dedicated gardener and plantsman, his botanical studies are of real quality. This is the first full-length monograph to deal with all aspects of his career.

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"This is a diligent, thoroughly researched account, packed with detail, enlivened by letters and the recollections of Nash's contemporaries. . . . John Nash: Artist and Countryman is valuable for the superb illustrations, beautifully reproduced throughout, and supplemented by a gallery of works that Lambirth found in the course of his research and could not fit into the text, many in private collections."-- "Times Literary Supplement"

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Andrew Lambirth (born 1959) is a writer, critic and curator. He has written on art for a number of publications including e Sunday Telegraph, e Art Newspaper and RA, the Royal Academy magazine. Among his many books are monographs on Craigie Aitchison, Maggi Hambling, David Inshaw, LS Lowry and RB Kitaj. He has curated exhibitions of work for various museums and public galleries. He was art critic of e Spectator 20022014 and his reviews have been collected in a paperback entitled A is a Critic. He lives in Wiltshire.