The Menin Road
Paul Nash Β· 1919
Why it's great
Paul Nash paints a wrecked, muddy landscape near Ypres in Belgium, with flooded craters and splintered trees. Made for the British government's war memorial project, it shows the destruction of the battlefield in 1919.
ποΈ Part of history
World War I (1914β1918) β Paul Nash paints a wrecked, muddy landscape near Ypres in Belgium, with flooded craters and splintered trees.
Where to see it
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Paul Nash was an English painter born in London in 1889. He was an official war artist in both World Wars and painted haunting landscapes of broken trees and battlefields. He died in Boscombe, England, in 1946.