Thirty one letters from Dudley Tooth, Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd, to Paul Nash, together with statements of account March-November 1943, and list of owners of Nash works (TGA 7050/1416).

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 70 TGA 7050/1406-1440
  • Dates of Creation
      January - December 1943
  • Physical Description
      43 pieces

Scope and Content

The letters mainly concern sales of Paul Nash works and their display, transfer and and delivery. Other topics include photographing works (TGA 7050/1406, 1409 and 1412); exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries (TGA 7050/1406) and Temple Newsam (TGA 7050/1409, 1415, 1419 and 1427); Paul Nash's illness (TGA 7050/1408); mounting and framing works (TGA 7050/1425-6, 1428, 1431 and 1434); insurance (TGA 7050/1432); damage to the painting 'Summer Solstice' (TGA 7050/1432-35); a 'royal purchase' (TGA 7050/1439); and articles on Paul Nash in 'Country Life' (TGA 7050/1439). TGA 7050/1414, 1422, 1427, 1431, 1433 and 1438 include pencil annotations, mainly in Nash's hand, TGA 7050/1433 also includes a pencil sketch. Paul Nash works mentioned include: 'Field by the Wood' (TGA 7050/1406), 'Design of Arches' wood engraving and 'Rox of Death' collage (TGA 7050/1407), 'Landscape of the Fungus, Oxfordshire', 'Landscape of the Fungus, Gloucestershire' and 'Field by the Wood' (TGA 7050/1408), 'November Moon' (TGA 7050/1410, 1411 and 1406), 'Gloucester Valley' (TGA 7050/1409), 'Monster Shore' (TGA 7050/1415, 1419, 1427, 1435-37), 'Michaelmas Landscape' (TGA 7050/1410, 1414, 1417), 'Sunrise Landscape' (TGA 7050/1410, 1411), 'Sunflower and Sun' (TGA 7050/1412, 1418), 'Nest of the Syren', 'Interior' and 'Souvenir de Cros de Cagnes' (TGA 7050.1415), 'Woodsea' (TGA 7050/1418, 1422, 1424, 1428, 1429), 'Coronilla', 'Wooded Landscape' and 'Vale of the White Blackbird' (TGA 7050/1418), 'Gloucestershire Lansdscape' (TGA 7050/1418, 1422, 1424, 1429, 1431, 1436, 1437), 'Gloucester Landscape Bagley Woods' (TGA 7050/1421, 1422), 'Landscape of the Moons First Quarter' (TGA 7050/1421-22, 1436-37), 'Landscape of the Brown Fungus' (TGA 7050/1421, 1429, 1431), 'Vernal Equinox' (TGA 7050/1421-22, 1425, 1432), 'Landscape of the Puff Balls' (TGA 7050/1421), ''Ghost of the Megaceros Hibernicus' (TGA 7050/1424), 'Landscape in the Afternoon' and 'Two Serpents' (TGA 7050/1426), 'Landscape of the Malvern Distance' (TGA 7050/1428, 1432, 1436-37), 'Landscape of the Vale to the South' (TGA 7050/1431, 1436-38), 'Landscape of the Megaliths' and 'Wood on the Hill' sketch (TGA 7050/1433), 'Storm over the Landscape' study (TGA 7050/1436-38), 'Study of Hill Country' and 'Kensington Gardens' (TGA 7050/1436), 'Chesil Beach' (TGA 7050/1439), 'Cerne Giant' (TGA 7050/1439-1440), 'Coast Scene (Wales)' (TGA 7050/1439-40).