Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 6

1943

Graham Sutherland OM, ‘Front cover’ 1943 — © The estate of Graham Sutherland

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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 × 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

British War Art Neo-romanticism

Archive context

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

Sketchbook 6 TGA 812/6

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