- Created by
- Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
- Title
- Sketchbook 15
- Date
- [c.1947–50]
- Format
- Bound volume - sketchbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
- Reference
- TGA 812/15
Description
Graphite, chalk, crayon, watercolour, and oil on paper, 69 pages, 9 pages and covers are missing, 215 × 140 mm
This sketchbook includes more than twenty drawings of Kathleen Sutherland seated in a variety of positions. It seems more than likely that these drawings were made when Sutherland was experimenting and thinking how to paint his first portrait; as this would explain the inclusion of copies of several portrait heads by Picasso, exemplifying an alternative approach.
There are also drawings with nature themes in this sketchbook, which range in date from 1947-1951, and two drawings for the Somerset Maugham portrait of 1949.
Archive context
- Collection of forty sketchbooks and fragments of sketchbooks TGA 812 (40)
- Sketchbook 15 TGA 812/15
You might like
-
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 3
1940 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 4
1940–4 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 5
1942–3 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 8
1943 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 10
1943–4 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 11
[c.1944–9] -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 13
1946 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 14
1946–9 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 16
1947–57 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 18
1950 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 19
1950 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 20
[c.1950–3] -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 22
[c.1952] -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 25
1955 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 27
1957–8