The Menin Road (Q20054071)

Label from: German (de) English (en)

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genre: history painting (Q742333)
artist: Paul Nash (Q727643)
collection: Imperial War Museum London (Q749808)
location: Imperial War Museum London (Q749808)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: World War I (Q361)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Art UK artwork ID: the-menin-road-6407

catalog URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20087

information from the Imperial War Museum London catalog

description: image: A devastated battlefield pocked with rain-filled shell-holes, flooded trenches and shattered trees lit by unearthly beams of light from an apocalyptic sky. Two figures pick their way along a tree-lined road, the road punctuated by shell-holes and lined by tree stumps. The foreground is filled with concrete blocks, barbed wire and corrugated iron, while columns of mud from artillery fire rise up in the background.

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