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An Official War Artist during the First World War, Nash developed a primitivising style which was refined in the 1920s by the French-influenced ideas of Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group.  This wash drawing of an Essex harbour, uniting the beauty of the natural world and the harsh intrusion of industry, typifies the evocative landscape style he developed in the interwar years.","physicalDescription":"A pencil and wash drawing showing a view of a commercial and light-industrial harbour from one of the landings.  The keel of a large ship looms in the right foreground.  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