The Christian Science connection within the British Modern Art Movement

ARTLYST
By Revd Jonathan Evens

Paul Nash Tate Britain

UNITED KINGDOM---Christian Science does not explain the work of Paul Nash and Winifred Nicholson just as surely as their work does not illustrate Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Yet Christian Science and religion more broadly is a factor in their work and one, which if overlooked or disregarded, diminishes our understanding of and appreciation for their actual achievements. Religion is a factor in the work of each of these artists; one which needs to be explored more than has often been the case in the past and which should be given substantive weight in understanding their work whilst also recognising that its significance does not exhaust the ways in which their work can be understood and appreciated.[link]