NASH (John, 1893-1977, R.A., Painter, War Artist, Illustrator and Engraver)

Autograph Letter Signed to Anthony BERTRAM (1897-1978, writer on Art and Travel, biographer, 1955, of John Nash's brother Paul, 1889-1946), sending "the details ... chiefly from my cousin Olive Nash", and giving her address in Weston super Mare, "as regards the Hawk Wood problem, Barbara" (Nash, John's sister) "agrees with me that it was 'taken' looking out towards Iver Heath", (near their childhood home), "& therefore the bird is not actually hovering over Hawks Wood", and apologizing for the delay, "I have been & still am likely to be terribly busy", 2 sides 8vo, Bottengoms Farm, Wormingford, Essex, 11th February neat filing holes touching two letters

Anthony Bertram was in the Infantry in WW1 and in MI6 during WW2. As early as 1923 he had written a short life of Paul for the series 'Contemporary British Artists' and was now starting a full length biography. He and his wife Barbara, 1906-2004 [not John's sister], married in 1929, and leased Bignor Manor, near Petworth. There in WW2 Barbara was housemother to resistance fighters on their way back to France.

Item Date:  1951

Stock No:  54300      £65

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