C. R. W. Nevinson

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson was born in 1889 to war journalist Henry Nevinson and suffragette Margaret Jones. As a young man, he studied at the Slade School of Art, producing paintings which were heavily inspired by the Futurist and Cubist movements of the time. During WWI, Nevinson was one o ... f several 'war artists' appointed by the British government to document scenes of trench warfare. His initial paintings of the war were critically acclaimed - especially 1915's La Mitrailleuse. However, as the war dragged on, Nevinson broke from Futurism and painted in an increasingly realistic style, to mixed critical reception. After WWI, he produced a mixture of Futurist paintings (such as 1933's The Twentieth Century) and more realist works. He died in 1946, aged 57. read more