Graham Sutherland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Graham Sutherland

English artist

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1903

Place of Birth: Streatham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Feb-1980

Profession: artist, painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Graham Sutherland

  • Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was an English artist who is notable for his work in glass, fabrics, prints and portraits.
  • His work was much inspired by landscape and religion, and he designed the tapestry for the re-built Coventry Cathedral. Printmaking, mostly of romantic landscapes, dominated Sutherland's work during the 1920s.
  • He developed his art by working in watercolours before switching to using oil paints in the 1940s.
  • It is these oil paintings, often of surreal, organic landscapes of the Pembrokeshire coast, that secured his reputation as a leading British modern artist.
  • Sutherland taught at a number of art colleges, notably at Chelsea School of Art and at Goldsmiths College, where he had been a student.
  • He served as an official war artist in the Second World War drawing industrial scenes on the British home front. Such was Sutherland's standing in post-war Britain that he was commissioned to design the massive central tapestry in the new Coventry Cathedral, Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph.
  • A number of portrait commissions in the 1950s proved highly controversial.
  • Winston Churchill hated Sutherland's depiction of him.
  • After initially refusing to be presented with it at all, he accepted it disparagingly as “a remarkable example of modern art".In 1955, Sutherland and his wife purchased a property near Nice.
  • Living abroad led to something of a decline in his status in Britain.
  • However, a visit to Pembrokeshire in 1967, his first trip there in nearly twenty years, led to a creative renewal that went some way toward restoring his reputation as a leading British artist.

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