Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 6

1943

Front cover

Created by
Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Date
1943
Medium
Cardboard cover coated on the outside with textured paper
Dimensions
185 x 260 mm
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Graham Sutherland OM, ‘Front cover’ 1943

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

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