Graham Vivian Sutherland (August 24, 1903 – February 17, 1980) was an English artist. The roofless ruins of the old cathedral. ... is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ...

Early life

He was born in Streatham, London, educated at Epsom College, Surrey and Goldsmiths College, University of London. He worked as an engineer at the Midland Railway Works at Derby before studying engraving at Goldsmiths College from 1921 to 1926. In 1927 he married Kathleen Barry. Streatham is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth in the United Kingdom . ... Epsom College is a co-educational Public School in College Road, Epsom, Surrey, England with around 720 pupils, and a member of the Headmasters Conference. ... The Main Building The Ben Pimlott Building Goldsmiths College, University of London (founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) is a college of the University of London specialising in teaching of and research into creative, cultural and cognitive disciplines. ... The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922. ... Derby (pronounced dar-bee ) is a city in the East Midlands of England. ... Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ... The Main Building The Ben Pimlott Building Goldsmiths College, University of London (founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) is a college of the University of London specialising in teaching of and research into creative, cultural and cognitive disciplines. ...

Early prints and landscapes

His early prints of pastoral subjects show the influence of Samuel Palmer, largely mediated by the older etcher, F.L. Griggs. He did not begin to paint in earnest until he was in his mid-30s, following the collapse of the print market in 1930 due to the Great Depression. These pieces are mainly landscapes, which show an affinity with the work of Paul Nash. Sutherland focused on the inherent strangeness of natural forms, and abstracting them, sometimes giving his work a surrealist appearance; in 1936 he exhibited in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Titians The Pastoral Concert Pastoral refers to the lifestyle of shepherds and pastoralists, moving livestock around larger areas of land according to seasons and availability of water and feed. ... Self-portrait of the young Samuel Palmer, circa 1826. ... Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, RA, RE (October 30, 1876 – June 7, 1938) was a distinguished English etcher, architectural draughtsman, illustrator, and early conservationist, associated with the late flowering of the Arts and Crafts movement in the Cotswolds. ... The Great Depression was the result of the economic downturn that started with the Stock Market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. ... Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. ... Paul Nash (1899 - 1946) was a British war artist. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. ... The International Surrealist Exhibition was held from 11 June to 4 July 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries in London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

He also took up glass design, fabric design and poster design during the 1930s, and taught at a number of London art colleges. In 1934 he first visited Pembrokeshire, and the place remained an inspiration for his neo-romantic work until late 1936. Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pembrokeshire (Welsh: ) is a county in the southwest of Wales in the United Kingdom. ... The term neo-romanticism is synonymous with post-Romanticism or late Romanticism. ...

Mature work

From 1940 Sutherland was employed as an official artist in World War II, as part of the War Artists' Scheme. He worked on the Home Front, depicting mining, industry, and bomb damage. Vasily Vereshchagin. ...

Having converted to Catholicism in 1926, from around 1950, until his death he was deeply involved in religion. Following the war he produced several religious pieces, including The Crucifixion (1946) for St. Matthew's Church, Northampton and the tapestry Christ in Glory (1962) for Coventry Cathedral. He also continued to produce work based on natural forms, and managed to blend some of these - such as thorns - into his religious work. Sometimes, as in Head III (1953), these forms, often considered threatening in appearance, have an organic appearance but are entirely invented. This article is about tapestry the textile. ... The roofless ruins of the old cathedral. ...

From 1947 into the 1960s his work was inspired by the south of France, and he purchased a villa there at Menton in 1955. Menton (Occitan: Menton in classical norm or Mentan in Mistralian norm; Italian: Mentone) is a town and commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région of France. ...

The main Art & Design building at Coventry University is named after him. Coventry University is a post-1992 university in Coventry, UK. Under the terms of the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992, the institutions name was changed from Coventry Polytechnic to Coventry University. ...

Portraits

Sutherland also painted a number of portraits, with one of Somerset Maugham (1949) the first and among the most famous. His painting of Winston Churchill (1954) was famously destroyed on the orders of Lady Churchill; studies for the portrait have survived. Roman-Egyptian funeral portrait of a young boy A portrait is a painting (portrait painting), photograph (portrait photography), or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. ... Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (April 1, 1885 - December 12, 1977) (née Clementine Ogilvy Hozier) was the wife of Sir Winston Churchill. ...

Exhibitions

There were major retrospective shows at the Tate Gallery in 1982, France in 1998, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2005. The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, London. ...

References

• See Sources.

See also

• John Tunnard
• John Piper
• Moments of Vision, Kenneth Clark: “We must admit that our moments of vision are usually unpredictable. Mr. Graham Sutherland has described how on his country walks objects which he has passed a hundred times-a root, a thorn bush, a dead tree-will suddenly detach themselves and demand a separate existence; but why or when this should happen he cannot tell us, any more than a rider can tell us why his pony shies on a familiar road. His imitators think that they can achieve the same effect by going straight to the thorn bush and painting its portrait. But it remains inert and confused, like any casual sitter" (Clark 6).

John Tunnard (May 7, 1900 - December 18, 1971), was a British artist and designer. ... John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (December 13, 1903 – June 28, 1992) was a well-known 20th century English artist who lived for many years at Fawley Bottom near Henley-on-Thames. ...

Further reading

• Roger Berthoud. Graham Sutherland: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1982.
• John Hayes. The Art of Graham Sutherland. Phaidon, 1980.

External links

• Long Art In America essay on Sutherland
• The artist Winston Churchill loved to hate