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Graham Sutherland
Artist's Name: Graham Sutherland
Preferred medium: painting
birth year: 1903
Nationality: GB
City: London

Graham Sutherland - Profile

Graham (Vivian) Sutherland was born on August 24, 1903, in Streatham near London. After an apprenticeship and working as an engineer for the railroad, Graham Sutherland studied art at Goldsmiths' College School of Art in London from 1920 until 1925. His early works consist mainly of landscapes with surrealistic overtones.
In 1936, Sutherland's works were displayed at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. After an assignment as an official war painter during the Second World War and his first contact with Francis Bacon, with whom he became fast friends, Graham Sutherland changed the subject of his paintings.
In the 1950's, Sutherland found his strength in his portrait painting, which show unmistakeable marks of Bacon's influence. His portraits include one of Winston Churchill, which was unfortunately destroyed on order of the testament of Churchill's wife. Sutherland's many stays in southern France inspired his works in the 1960's.
Graham Sutherland died on February 17, 1980, in London. Sutherland participated in many exhibitions which confirm his international reputation, including the "documenta" in Kassel in 1955, 1959, and 1964, as well as retrospectives at the Tate Gallery in London in 1982, in France in 1998, and at the Dulwich Gallery in London in 2005.

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important exhibitions from Graham Sutherland

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Graham Sutherland An Unfinished World Modern Art Oxford Oxford GB 10.12.2011
Picasso and Modern British Art Metropolitan Museum New York US 15.02.2012
Picasso and Modern British Art Tate Britain London GB 15.02.2012
Romantics Tate Britain London GB 09.08.2009
The Radev Collection: Bloomsbury and Beyond Pallant House Gallery Chichester GB 01.10.2011
British Council Collection: Thresholds Whitechapel Art Gallery London GB 09.01.2010
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art Tate St. Ives St. Ives GB 10.10.2009
Seeing is Believing Tate Liverpool - modern and contemporary art Liverpool GB 11.12.2004

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Collections representing
Graham Sutherland

Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Deutsche Bank Collection
MAMbo Bologna
Museum Abteiberg
National Galleries of Scotland
Schaulager Basel - Sammlung Emanuel Hoffmann
Tate St. Ives