British Council British Council Visual Arts

An exhibition 23 paintings, 25 watercolours and wood engravings; four works were lent by the artist's widow, six from the British Council collection andthe remaining works drawn from private and public collections in the Uk, including the Tate Gallery, the Imperial War Museum and the Canadian War Memorial Collection of the National Gallery of Canada. A catalogue was published to accompany the show. No ISBN number.

Reviews

The exhibition of over fifty works by Paul Nash was sent to Canada and the request of Mr H O McCurry, Director of the National Gallery of Canada. The Ottawa Journal wrote

It is a most satisfying collection of one artist and is a tribute to the technical skill of the man and to his remarkable and inquisitive mind .. It is expressive and colourful; full of deep meaning and a sense of the greatness and dignity of inanimate objects; it is quiet and dignified; creative and original in the best sense of modern art. Some of the pictures will be disliked, but none will be thrown aside by the public, for they have always a sense of design and color that is outstanding.

The Toronto Globe reported

Nash had the gentleness of expression which is traditionally Anglo-Saxon, but he was so informed of things of the spirit and so sure in his mental processes that to see a roomful of his work is to have one's artistic longings fulfilled.