The train journey

Details

Job Nixon (1891-1938)
The train journey
pencil and coloured chalks, on paper
19 ½ x 28 ½ in. (49.5 x 72.5 cm.)

Provenance

Wyndham T. Vint Esq.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 January 2012, lot 258.

Exhibited

Bradford, Bradford Corporation Art Gallery, loan no. 200.

Lot Essay

Born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1891, Nixon studied at the Slade and the South Kensington Art School, winning a Rome scholarship in 1923. Painting mostly landscapes and topographical scenes, he also produced etchings and engravings. Upon moving to Cornwall in 1931 - on the advice of Lamorna Birch - he married the artist Nina Berry, with whom he ran an art school in St Ives.

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