Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 4

1940–4

Graham Sutherland OM, ‘Horned root forms in a landscape’ 1944 — © The estate of Graham Sutherland

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Created by: Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Title: Sketchbook 4
Date: 1940–4
Description: Graphite, ink, crayon, and watercolour on paper, 6 pages, stubs of 4 pages, no covers, 217 x 140 mm

In this sketchbook there are studies of Pembrokeshire, nature themes appear alongside a drawing of bomb damage.
Format: Bound volume - sketchbook
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
Reference: TGA 812/4

British War Art Analytical cubism Neo-romanticism Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers

Archive context

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

Sketchbook 4 TGA 812/4

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