Paul Nash

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The Menin Road is a large oil painting by Paul Nash completed in 1919 that depicts a First World War battlefield. Nash was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to paint a battlefield scene for the proposed national Hall of Remembrance. The painting is considered one of the most iconic images of the First World War and is held by the Imperial War Museum.

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Sunrise, Inverness Copse is an watercolour by English artist Paul Nash, from 1918. It was produced during the final year of World War I and depicts a scene from the Western Front near Ypres in Belgium. It was developed from an eye-witness sketch which Nash drew whilst at the scene in 1917.

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We Are Making a New World is an oil-on-canvas painting by Paul Nash, from 1918. It is held at the Imperial War Museum, in London. The optimistic title contrasts with Nash's depiction of a scarred landscape created by a battle of the First World War, with shell-holes, mounds of earth, and leafless tree trunks.

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Battle of Britain is an oil on canvas painting by the British war artist Paul Nash, from 1941. It is a depiction of an aerial battle in the Battle of Britain during the Second World War. It measures 122.6 cm × 183.5 cm (48.3 in × 72.2 in).