DETAILS
- Artist
- Graham Sutherland
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- Etching; first state, second proof
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- plate: 5 11/16 x 5 3/16 in. (14.4 x 13.2 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1993
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THE ARTIST
Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland, an English artist, journeyed from romantic landscape etchings to abstract oil paintings and controversial portraits, including a destroyed depiction of Winston Churchill.
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