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Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson

Also known as: Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson; primary name: Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; British; Male
Life dates: 1889-1946
Biography: Painter, printmaker and author. Always called Richard by his friends. Born in London, son of the writer H W Nevinson and Margaret Nevinson, writer and suffrage campaigner. Educated at Uppingham School and then studied painting at St John's Wood School of Art and at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1908-12; continuing his studies at Académie Julien, Paris. He served with the Red Cross during WWI, but was invalided out, becoming an Official War Artist in 1917. He was represented in the 1915 Vorticist Exhibition as well as exhibiting with the Friday Club, Allied Artists' Association and was a founder member of the London Group. His first solo exhibition of war paintings was held at Leicester Galleries. After the war he travelled and became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers/Printmakers and was an Associate Royal Academician. He published his autobiography, 'Paint and Prejudice', in 1937. A memorial exhibition was held at the Leicester Galleries, 1947, with a retrospective at the Imperial War Museum, 1999-00, where his work is held in addition to the Tate Gallery. Note: his name recorded in P&D visitors' book 2 March, 6 May, 22 June 1910, 2 Feb 1911, 20 June 1912
Bibliography: Jonathan Black, 'C.R.W. Nevinson. The Complete Prints', Farnham, Surrey: Lund Humphries in association with Osborne Samuel, 2014 (cat. raisonné) Leicester Galleries, 'Nash and Nevinson in War and Peace: The Graphic Work, 1914-1920', Leicester Galleries, London, 1977 Julian Honer (ed.) 'C.R.W.Nevinson: The Twentieth Century', (exh. cat.), Imperial War Museum, London, 1999

68 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1983,0723.2 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Drawn by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1924-1926

drawing

Museum number: 1994,0618.8 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Drawn by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1911

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1985,0330.13 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Drawn by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1914-1917

print

Title: The Acrobat, Montmartre |
Museum number: 1960,0409.413 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1921-1922

print

Title: The Estuary |
Museum number: 1949,0411.358 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print; portfolio

Title: Swooping Down on a Taube Building Aircraft |
Museum number: 1918,0713.121 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Boesinghe Farm |
Museum number: 1918,0219.2 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1916

print

Title: Nerves of an Army |
Museum number: 1949,0411.359 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: Troops Resting French troops resting |
Museum number: 1918,0219.6 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1916

print

Title: The Tank |
Museum number: 1918,0219.7 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: A Group of Soldiers |
Museum number: 1918,0219.13 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: The Mule Team |
Museum number: 1918,0219.8 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Reclaimed Country |
Museum number: 1918,0219.9 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Lovers The embrace |
Museum number: 2000,0521.10 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1919

print

Title: Inside Brigade Headquarters |
Museum number: 1918,0219.12 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Returning to the Trenches |
Museum number: 1949,0411.356 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1916

print

Title: A Dawn, 1914 |
Museum number: 1918,0219.5 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1916

print

Title: Reliefs at Dawn |
Museum number: 1918,0219.20 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print; portfolio

Title: In the Air Building Aircraft |
Museum number: 1918,0713.119 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Wind |
Museum number: 1949,0411.360 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: After a Push |
Museum number: 1918,0219.21 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: The Workers |
Museum number: 1980,0726.31 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1919

print

Title: Ebb Tide (on the Camber) |
Museum number: 1960,0409.371 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: La Villette |
Museum number: 1985,1005.20 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Survivors at Arras |
Museum number: 1918,0219.11 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Looking Through Brooklyn Bridge, New York |
Museum number: 1924,0209.28 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1921

print

Title: From Waterloo Bridge |
Museum number: 1960,0409.370 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1924 1926

print

Title: Southwark Limehouse |
Museum number: 2004,0602.122 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: That Cursed Wood |
Museum number: 1918,0219.10 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: The Blue Wave |
Museum number: 1949,0411.2142 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print; portfolio

Title: Banking at 4,000 Feet Building Aircraft |
Museum number: 1918,0713.120 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Bomber |
Museum number: 1918,0219.19 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: Ramming Home a Heavy Shell |
Museum number: 1918,0219.14 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: The Road from Arras to Bapaume |
Museum number: 1918,0219.22 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: Over the Lines |
Museum number: 1918,0219.23 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: New York Stock Exchange |
Museum number: 1997,1102.7 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1921

print

Title: Waterloo Bridge From a Savoy Window |
Museum number: 1926,0628.3 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1924-1926

print

Title: Southwark |
Museum number: 1949,0411.357 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: From an Office Window |
Museum number: 2004,0602.121 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: From an Office Window |
Museum number: 1980,0126.97 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: Wind |
Museum number: 2004,0602.120 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: The Balcony, Dieppe |
Museum number: 1960,0409.415 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1928-1929

print

Title: Hauling Down an Observation Balloon at Night |
Museum number: 1918,0219.25 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print; portfolio

Title: Acetylene Welder Building Aircraft |
Museum number: 1918,0713.118 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print; portfolio

Title: Assembling Parts Building Aircraft |
Museum number: 1918,0713.117 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: After a German Retreat: Boshe Bottles |
Museum number: 1918,0219.16 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: Le Port |
Museum number: 1919,0426.2 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1919

print; portfolio

Title: Making the Engine Building Aircraft |
Museum number: 1918,0713.116 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: After a German Retreat: Looted Coffin, Rolincourt |
Museum number: 1918,0219.17 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print; christmas-card

Museum number: 1949,0411.2313 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1921-1922

print

Title: Column on the March |
Museum number: 1949,0411.361 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1916

print

Title: Twilight |
Museum number: 1918,0219.3 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1916

print

Title: After a German Retreat: Labour Battalion Making a Road Through a Captured Village |
Museum number: 1918,0219.18 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: Dressing Station The doctor |
Museum number: 1918,0219.4 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1916

print

Title: M.T. Lorry Jumpers |
Museum number: 1918,0219.15 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: The Temples of New York |
Museum number: 2018,7028.3 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1919

print

Title: Southampton |
Museum number: 1918,0219.1 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1916

print

Title: Quartier Latin |
Museum number: 1960,0409.414 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1922

print

Title: From a Paris Window |
Museum number: 1928,0310.10 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1922

print

Title: Place Blanche |
Museum number: 1960,0409.372 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1922

print

Title: Looking Down into Wall Street |
Museum number: 1980,0510.22 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1919

print

Title: Pont Royal |
Museum number: 1960,0409.645 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1922

print

Title: Hans and Fritz |
Museum number: 1918,0219.24 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: Under Brooklyn Bridge |
Museum number: 1997,1102.6 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1921

print

Title: Cornish Landscape |
Museum number: 1949,0411.882 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1918

print

Title: Wet Evening, Oxford Street |
Museum number: 1919,0426.3 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1919

print

Title: Dawn at Southwark |
Museum number: 1949,0411.2141 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Westminster From a Savoy Window |
Museum number: 1926,0628.2 |
Producer name: BIOG40074 Print made by:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson |
Production date: 1924-1926

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