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Title:The Road from Arras to Bapaume
Artist:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British, London 1889–1946 London)
Date:1918
Medium:Lithograph
Dimensions:22 5/8 × 17 5/16 in. (57.4 × 44 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:Purchase, Reba and Dave Williams Gift, 1996
Object Number:1996.577
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite): C.R.W. Nevinson 1918
Norman H. Zimmern, M. C.; Richard Zimmern, Esq.; [Garton & Co. Print Dealers & Publishers, Wiltshire, England, until 1996; sold to MMA]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939," January 30–June 1, 2008, no. 17.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939," September 23–December 7, 2008, no. 17.
Miami. Wolfsonian, Florida International University. "Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939," November 21, 2009–February 28, 2010, no. 17.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "World War I and the Visual Arts," July 31, 2017–January 7, 2018 (not in MMA Bulletin, Fall 2017).
C. Lewis Hind. The Old World and the New: Exhibition of Paintings, Etchings, Lithographs and Woodcuts by C. R. W. Nevinson of London, England. Exh. cat., Bourgeois Galleries. New York, [1920], unpaginated, no. 93 (unknown edition).
Nash and Nevinson in War and in Peace: The Graphic Work 1914–1920. Exh. cat., Leicester Galleries at the Alpine Club Gallery. London, 1977, unpaginated, no. 37, ill. (unknown edition).
Elizabeth Knowles inC. R. W. Nevinson, 1889–1946: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat., Kettle's Yard Gallery. Cambridge, England, 1988, p. 22, no. 34 (collection Trustees of the Imperial War Museum).
Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths. Avant-Garde British Printmaking, 1914–1960. Exh. cat., British Museum. London, 1990, pp. 53–54, no. 26, ill. (unknown edition).
Lisa M. Messinger in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection, 1996–1997." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 55 (Fall 1997), p. 74, ill.
Ben Jones. "Denying the 'Foe-to-graphic': C. R. W. Nevinson and Photography." A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C. R. W. Nevinson (1889–1946). Ed. Michael J. K. Walsh. Newark, N.J., 2007, pp. 155–56.
Jonathan Black. "Beauty, Rhythm, Strength: C. R. W. Nevinson as a Printmaker, ca. 1916–32." A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C. R. W. Nevinson (1889–1946). Ed. Michael J. K. Walsh. Newark, N.J., 2007, pp. 118–19.
Sue Malvern. "Nevinson's 'Bad Body' Modernisms and Fascism in the 1930s." A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C. R. W. Nevinson (1889–1946). Ed. Michael J. K. Walsh. Newark, N.J., 2007, pp. 182–83.
Paul Edwards. "Artists as Activists: C. R. W. Nevinson and Wyndham Lewis." A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C. R. W. Nevinson (1889–1946). Ed. Michael J. K. Walsh. Newark, N.J., 2007, p. 78.
Clifford S. Ackley inRhythms of Modern Life: British Prints, 1914–1939. Ed. Clifford S. Ackley. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 2008, p. 20.
Thomas E. Rassieur inRhythms of Modern Life: British Prints, 1914–1939. Ed. Clifford S. Ackley. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 2008, pp. 58, 212, no. 17, ill. p. 63 (color).
Jonathan Black. C.R.W. Nevinson: The Complete Prints. Surrey, England, 2014, pp. 33, 108, 130, no. 30, ill. front cover and p. 131 (color), lists editions in the British Museum and Imperial War Museum, London.
Gordon Samuel. CRW Nevinson: A Printmaker in War and Peace. Exh. cat., Osborne Samuel, Ltd. London, 2014, pp. 3, 7, 29, ill. (color) (not this edition).
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British, London 1889–1946 London)
1918
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