Press cuttings on the painter Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946)

Albums with press cuttings relating to the activities of Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson.

C. R. W. Nevinson was the son of H. W. Nevinson, a war correspondent. He studied art at St. John's Wood, then at the Slade School of Art (1909-12), where his contemporaries included David Bomberg, Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Isaac Rosenberg and Stanley Spencer. In March 1912 he saw the Futurist exhibition at the Sackville Gallery in London. Thereafter, he became friendly with Gino Severini and visited Paris. He met other Italian Futurists in Paris, continuing his education at the Academie Julian and the Cercle Russe. On his return to London he continued to support Futurism, notably at Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's London appearances in November 1913, and through concentration on urban subjects depicted using Futurist techniques. With Marinetti, Nevinson published the manifesto, 'Vital English Art' (1914). This isolated him from Wyndham Lewis and a number of other British artists who were to create Vorticism, though he contributed to the second issue of 'Blast' (1915).

Service with the Red Cross during the First World War forced Nevinson to reject the Futurists' celebration of war. Later, he was an Official War Artist and created a number of works on aerial combat. After the war his work became more traditional. Nevinson was a founder member of the London Group (in 1913) and became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1939.

Nevinson's autobiography was published as 'Paint and Prejudice' (1937). An early monograph was Osbert Sitwell's 'C. R. W. Nevinson' (1925). Further information can be found in P. G. Konody's 'Modern War Paintings by C. R. W. Nevinson' (1917) and in Richard Cork's 'Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age' (2 vols., 1975-76). Posthumous exhibitions include 'C. R. W. Nevinson: The Great War and After' (London: Maclean Gallery, 1980) and 'C. R. W. Nevinson: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints' (Cambridge: Kettle's Yard, 1988).

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Microfilm records also held in Tate Gallery Microfilm, listed under the name C.R.W. Nevinson.

The Archive has an annotated catalogue for an exhibition by Nevinson (TGA 891/12), a small group of miscellaneous papers (TGA 7232), and letters from Gino Severini to Nevinson (TGA 7621). There is also material on Nevinson in the records of the Goupil Gallery (TGA 8314), and letters from him in the papers of D. R. Bentham (TGA 7612), Lord Kenneth Clark (TGA 8812), Sir John Rothenstein (TGA 8726), Michael Sadler (TGA 8221), Stanley Spencer (TGA 733), and Alfred Yockney (TGA 724). Works by Nevinson are included in the exhibition catalogues of the Artists International Association (TGA 7043) and of the London Group (TGA 7713).