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The Menin Road (painting)
''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.〔
==Commission==
In April 1918, Nash was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to paint a battlefield scene, for the proposed, national Hall of Remembrance, which was never built. He decided to depict a section of the Ypres Salient known as 'Tower Hamlets' that had been devastated during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge. Nash originally intended to call the painting ''A Flanders Battlefield'' but he eventually decided to name it ''The Menin Road''.〔 The actual Menin road, the modern N8, was the main route between Ypres and Menin and passed the sites of several other battles, including Sanctuary Wood, Hooge Crater, Inverness Copse and Hellfire Corner. Nash knew the area well from the spring of 1917, when he served in the British Army on the Western Front and from later that year, when he returned to the war zone as an official war artist. Nash had come under shellfire when travelling along the route and had the quick reactions of his driver to thank for his survival. He considered 'Tower Hamlets' to be "perhaps the most dreaded and disastrous locality of any area in any of the theatres of War".〔
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