An English Landscape

'The 1920s was a quiet decade for all the former rebels, a time of retrenchment when the need to concentrate on placid subjects was matched by an equally strong desire to depict the world with greater exactitude and directness. In 1923 Nevinson painted An English Landscape, which showed how far he had travelled from the days when the bursting metropolis was his exclusive theme. Now he cherishes the kind of pacific rural have which would have attracted his most vituperative insults in the Futurist period, and the style which he chooses to elaborate this pastoral already approaches the banality which mars so much of his later work'. (see R. Cork, loc. cit.).