- Created by
- Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
- Title
- Sketchbook 6
- Date
- 1943
- Description
- Graphite, crayon, ink, and watercolour on paper, 15 pages plus covers, 10 pages are missing, 185 x 260 mm
Most of the drawings in this sketchbook date from the first half of 1943. They include a drawing of a limestone quarry, and a number of studies for the cover of the May 1943 issue of 'Poetry London' and for the lithographs made for this issue. There is an overlap with Sketchbook 5, which contains a number of related drawings. - Format
- Bound volume - sketchbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
- Reference
- TGA 812/6
Archive context
- Collection of forty sketchbooks and fragments of sketchbooks TGA 812 (40)
- Sketchbook 6 TGA 812/6
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