Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 19

1950

Graham Sutherland OM, ‘Blank page ’ 1950 — © The estate of Graham Sutherland

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Created by: Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Title: Sketchbook 19
Date: 1950
Description: Chalk, crayon, pastel and watercolour on paper, 30 pages, 13 pages and covers are missing, 319 × 205 mm

Most of the drawings in this sketchbook seem to be early studies for 'The Origins of the Land', and include a number of sketches of pterodactyls apparently drawn from fossils or from plates in books.
Format: Bound volume - sketchbook
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
Reference: TGA 812/19

Neo-romanticism

Archive context

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

Sketchbook 19 TGA 812/19

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