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Exhibitions

A lost opportunity to show John Nash at his best

Brothers in Art is a welcome initiative, but it could have done with quite a few more careful loans

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

Brothers in Art: John and Paul Nash

Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Road, Clifton, Bristol, until 14 September

John Northcote Nash (1893–1977) was the younger brother of Paul Nash (1889–1946), and has been long overshadowed by Paul, though they started their careers on a relatively even footing. The crucible of WW1 changed them: afterwards Paul became an art-world figure, cultivating possible patrons, quietly forceful and ambitious, deeply involved in the theory and practice of Modernism.

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