April 11, 1893

John Northcote Nash (April 11,  1893 to September 23, 1977), was a British artist, a painter of landscapes  and still-lifes. He liked engraving  in wood and here is one example, titled:  Cat on Chair, (1919).

Another lovely work is "Window Plants." Window Plants (1945) at first could not be simpler: geraniums in copper pots sit on a sill. The whole surface is on the verge of dissolving into non-figural flows and so you do not at first see inside the window to a fat lady snoozing in a chair with a cat on her lap.

We read about Nash on the Tate website:

... Born 11 April 1893 in London. At first worked as a journalist for a local paper but, encouraged by his brother Paul Nash and without academic training, turned to watercolour landscapes and comic drawings. Exhibited with his brother at the Dorien Leigh Galleries 1913; first one-man show at the Goupil Gallery 1921. Member of the Friday Club 1913, the London Group 1914, ...the Society for Wood Engravers 1921, the Modern English Water-Colour Society 1923; A.R.A. 1940, R.A. 1951. Began to paint in oils 1914. Served with the Artists' Rifles 1916–18; Official War Artist 1918. Lived at Gerrards Cross 1918–21. First art critic on the London Mercury 1919. Moved to Princes Risborough and taught at the Ruskin School, Oxford, 1922–7; taught at the R.C.A. 1934–40 and 1945–57. Executed a large mural for the Paris Exhibition 1937. Joined the Observer Corps 1939; Official War Artist to the Admiralty 1940; demobilized 1944 and went to live in Essex at Wormingford, near Colchester. Retrospective exhibition at the Leicester Galleries 1954.

John Nash would  survive two world wars, and was honored for his art after the second. He had been in love with Dora Carrington, but in 1916 married her friend Christine Kuhlenthal, who had studied at the Slade. They had cats.