Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 14

1946–9

Graham Sutherland OM, ‘Front cover’ 1946–9 — © The estate of Graham Sutherland

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Created by: Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Title: Sketchbook 14
Date: 1946–9
Format: Bound volume - sketchbook
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
Reference: TGA 812/14

Description

Graphite, chalk, and paste on paper, 40 pages plus covers, 2 pages are missing, 267 × 210 mm.

This sketchbook includes a study for the Northampton 'Crucifixion' of 1946 and some of his earliest drawings of people tending vines in the South of France made in the following year. There are also several studies for textile designs. A very stylised drawing of Kathleen Sutherland seated appears to have been added later, in 1949, as a study for the portrait of Somerset Maugham. Over two thirds of the pages are blank.

Artists’ International Association Biomorphism Cubism Neo-romanticism Romanticism Seven and Five Society Unit One

Archive context

Collection of forty sketchbooks and fragments of sketchbooks TGA 812 (40)

Sketchbook 14 TGA 812/14

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