Christopher Nevinson

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946) was one of the most significant British war artists of the 20th century, creating powerful images that captured the mechanized horror of World War I. Born in London to a well-connected journalist father and a suffragette mother, Nevinson studied at the Slade School of Art where he developed friendships with fellow students who would become important modernist figures. His early artistic development was profoundly shaped by a tri…