Graham Sutherland

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Graham Sutherland was a prominent 20th-century British artist known for his surreal, often unsettling landscapes and his influential work as an official war artist during World War II.

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Graham Sutherland canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British painter
human
war artist
awardReceived Order of Merit
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1903-08-24
dateOfDeath 1980-02-17
educatedAt Goldsmiths' College
employer War Artists' Advisory Committee
familyName Sutherland
fieldOfWork landscape painting
portrait painting
religious art
genre surreal landscape
war art
givenName Graham
influenced Francis Bacon
Lucian Freud
post-war British painters
influencedBy Francis Bacon
Paul Nash
Samuel Palmer
memberOf Royal Academy of Arts
movement Neo-Romanticism
linked to: neo-Romanticism

Surrealism
notableFor religious imagery
role as an official war artist during World War II
surreal imagery
unsettling landscapes
notableWork Crucifixion (1946)
Devastation, 1941: East End, Burnt Paper Warehouse
Entrance to a Lane
Portrait of Winston Churchill
Tapestry for Coventry Cathedral
The Origins of the Land
Thorn Tree
occupation designer
painter
printmaker
participatedIn Second World War
linked to: World War II
placeOfBirth London
linked to: London, England

Streatham
placeOfDeath Kent
London
linked to: London, England
positionHeld official war artist
residence London
linked to: London, England

Pembrokeshire
spouse Kathleen Sutherland

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