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Image: Paul Nash Wire 1918-19

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Description: Correspondence in the Imperial War Museum between Nash and the Ministry of Information reveal that the picture was substantially complete towards the end of 1918 and that Nash planned, but did not execute, a lithograph from the design (IWM War Artists Archive: IWM WW1 267A-6). image: a devastated landscape, pocked with rain-filled shell-holes. A shattered tree stands to the right, the tree and the whole foreground dominated by a dense web of barbed wire. The sky is a dramatic contrast between white and purplish red coloured clouds.
Title: Paul Nash Wire 1918-19
Credit: http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//148/media-148373/large.jpg This is photograph Art.IWM ART 2705 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: Paul Nash
Permission: This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No

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