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Study for Folded Hills
Item Code: GS-76367-u
Mixed media
Cat Rais No
86 Tate
Date of Work
1943
Signed
Unsigned
Height (cm)
10
Width (cm)
18
Study for Folded Hills, (oil on canvas 1943), pencil, crayon, ink, chalk and charcoal.
Sutherland first visited Pembrokeshire in 1935 and inspired by the surrounding countryside he began to paint landscapes that were inspired by the inherent strangeness of natural forms with echoes of Blake and Palmer.
This piece was completed when Sutherland was in the midst of serving as an official British war artist. The sense of entrapment and claustrophobia prevalent in the war drawings is imposed upon the Pembrokeshire landscape; tightly packed hills compressed into folded forms, blackened gorse and menacing rock formations.
Sutherland's work at once encompasses English Neo-Romanticism with the analytical world of man's inner life.
Sutherland first visited Pembrokeshire in 1935 and inspired by the surrounding countryside he began to paint landscapes that were inspired by the inherent strangeness of natural forms with echoes of Blake and Palmer.
This piece was completed when Sutherland was in the midst of serving as an official British war artist. The sense of entrapment and claustrophobia prevalent in the war drawings is imposed upon the Pembrokeshire landscape; tightly packed hills compressed into folded forms, blackened gorse and menacing rock formations.
Sutherland's work at once encompasses English Neo-Romanticism with the analytical world of man's inner life.
Graham Sutherland was born in 1903 in Streatham. He attended Epsom School and then studied art at Goldsmith’s School of Art (1921-26) where he quickly became a highly skilled etcher. As an official War Artist, Sutherland depicted bomb damage in London but it was not until after the war that he started to become really well known. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1960 and died in London in 1980.In his work Sutherland developed an interest in natural forms of growth such as tree roots and thorn bushes which he often depicted in close-up or from foreshortened viewpoints. These organic growth formations, which remained central to Sutherland’s work throughout his career, often appeared menacing or threatening with their hints of human or animal like characteristics.
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