Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 38

[c.1962–7]

Graham Sutherland OM, ‘Front cover’ [c.1962–7] — © The estate of Graham Sutherland

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Created by: Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Title: Sketchbook 38
Date: [c.1962–7]
Description: Graphite, crayon, chalk, ink and watercolour on paper, 20 pages, back cover are missing, 12 x 89 mm

This sketchbook is hard to date exactly, but everything seems to point towards the years 1962-1965. A series of notes answering questions about his work may, like those in Sketchbook 37, have been written in connection with one of the television programmes made about him in 1967.
Format: Bound volume - sketchbook
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
Reference: TGA 812/38

Blaue Reiter, Der Dada Expressionism

Archive context

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

Sketchbook 38 TGA 812/38

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