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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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Graham Sutherland (1903–1980) was a prolific English artist whose career spanned printmaking, painting, tapestry, and glass design. His early artistic endeavors were dominated by printmaking, especially etchings of romantic landscapes like "St. Mary Hatch" (1926) and "Pecken Wood" (1925), a skill he honed at Goldsmiths' School of Art after an initial, brief stint in engineering. The collapse of the print market in the early 1930s prompted Sutherland to shift his focus to pai…

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NOTABLE WORKS
The Sluice Gate 1924 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Poling Potteries 1924 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Pecken Wood 1925 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Village 1925 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Welsh Landscape with Roads 1936 · National Gallery Estuary with Rocks 1937 · National Museum Cardiff
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