Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) - Neo-Romantic Distortions

Graham Sutherland
Study of Rock and Flames
1975
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff (Wales)

Graham Sutherland
Cathedral (Study of Rocks)
ca. 1974-76
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff (Wales)

Graham Sutherland
Fountain
1965
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff (Wales)

Graham Sutherland
The Scales
1961-62
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Graham Sutherland
Hanging Form over Water
1959
oil on canvas
Southampton City Art Gallery

Graham Sutherland
Path through Woods
ca. 1958
oil on canvas
Southampton City Art Gallery

Graham Sutherland
The Honourable Edward Sackville-West
1957-58
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Graham Sutherland
Santa Maria della Salute
1957
oil on canvas
Southampton City Art Gallery

Graham Sutherland
Hydrant II
1954
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Graham Sutherland
Standing Forms II
1952
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

"Graham Sutherland was born in London. Though he initially worked as an engineer on the railway, he took up a place at Goldsmiths School of Art in 1921. Sutherland trained as an etcher at Goldsmiths, and only began painting in the 1930s. He was flexible in his use of medium: ranging from painting and stained glass to fabric work and printmaking. He taught many of these varied skills at the Chelsea School of Art. When that establishment closed, he moved to Gloucestershire and was offered a job as a salaried war artist. The paintings he did in this role were focused on the destruction of the Blitz, both in Wales and in London. He painted his first portrait in 1949. His most well-known portrait was that of Sir Winston Churchill, which was famously hated by Churchill and destroyed by Churchill's wife. In his later years Sutherland returned to Wales for inspiration and devoted much of his energy to printmaking."

– from biographical notes at Crane Kalman Gallery

Graham Sutherland
The Origins of the Land
1950-51
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Graham Sutherland
Study for The Origins of the Land
1950
graphite, bodycolour and crayon on board
Courtauld Gallery, London

Graham Sutherland
Standing Form against a Hedge
1950
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Graham Sutherland
Bird in Landscape
1944
oil on paper
Manchester Art Gallery

Graham Sutherland
Horned Forms
1944
oil on panel
Tate Gallery