Nash attended the Slade School of Art, where the remarkable generation of artists who studied under the influential Henry Tonks (1862-1937) included, too, Harold Gilman (1876-1919), Spencer Gore (1878-1914), David Bomberg (1890-1957), Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), Mark Gertler (1891-1939), and Roger Hilton (1911-1975).