Amongst the Nerves of the World is a 1930 oil painting by the British artist C.R.W. Nevinson.Ingleby p.103 Yass p.32 Ross p.9 A cityscape, it depicts a view of Fleet Street looking eastwards from an upper-storey window towards Ludgate Hill and St Paul's Cathedral. A steam train can be seen crossing the bridge heading to Holborn Viaduct station. Fleet Street was at the time the centre of British journalism. Nevinson was a leader of the British futurist movement around the time of the First World War. Although he later drifted away from the movement, this work reflects a return to the style. It shows a strong influence of Umberto Boccioni in using telephone and telegraph wires to criss-cross the painting, emphasising the dynamic nature of the location.https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/v/object-102120/amongst-the-nerves-of-the-world/
Today the painting is in the collection of the Museum of London, having been gifted to its predecessor in 1930.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/amongst-the-nerves-of-the-world-50506
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