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Kindred Spirits of Place: Charles Burchfield and Paul Nash

Lee Hallman (The Graduate Center, CUNY) This paper proposes a synchronicity of imagination between the Second World War-era landscapes of the British painter Paul Nash and the American Charles Burchfield, hinging upon the artists’ analogous expressions of a genius loci, or spirit of place. Paying attention to the artists’ individual wartime situations and respective national contexts, I trace their parallel return in the 1940s to the visionary, yet seasonally grounded imagery each had initiated earlier in the century and consider the extent to which their mutual impulse to give shape to nature’s spirits speaks to the spiritual crisis of their own historical season. This paper was presented at the conference, "In the Same Boat”: British and American Visual Culture During the Second World War, in the History of Art department at Yale University, May 8-9, 2015.