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Drawing of a churned, cratered landscape of mounds and ridges under a pale sky, with bare broken trees on the horizon.

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A Shell Crater by Paul Nash, dated 1918, is a drawing in graphite and white chalk on toned brown paper. It shows a churned, undulating landscape of mounds and ridges with a few bare, broken trees along a distant horizon.

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1918

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