John Nash

1893 - 1977

On the advice of his older brother, the artist Paul Nash, John Nash avoided art school as a formal art training. In the years immediately before the Great War, he established his artistic reputation as a printmaker with the progressive London Group and Camden Town Group of artists. Following the war, when he served as was an Official War Artist, he resumed his print making being an accomplished wood engraver and lithographer, becoming a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. From 1924 to 1929 he taught at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, and from 1934 to 1940 taught at the Design School at the Royal College of Art. In 1951 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy.