Bird

Bird

Graham SutherlandWW-1954-M060329
1954·Lithograph·composition: 17 7/16 x 17 3/8" (44.3 x 44.1cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 21 5/8" (50 x 54.9cm)

Catalogue

Year
1954
Dimensions
composition: 17 7/16 x 17 3/8" (44.3 x 44.1cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 21 5/8" (50 x 54.9cm)

Artist

Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland

Painting

Graham Sutherland was a British painter and printmaker whose angular, organic forms emerged from close observation of landscape and natural growth. Working primarily in oil and gouache, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of twisted branches, metamorphic plant forms, and jagged geological structures that conveyed psychological intensity beneath surface naturalism. His postwar paintings, particularly his figure studies and portraits, compressed human anatomy into sharp, almost predatory geometries. Sutherland's work bridged romantic landscape tradition and modernist abstraction, establishing him as a central figure in British art of the mid-twentieth century.

Streatham, UK

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Year
1954
Dimensions
composition: 17 7/16 x 17 3/8" (44.3 x 44.1cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 21 5/8" (50 x 54.9cm)
Watts ID
WW-1954-M060329

Source

Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

Graham Sutherland

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Painting

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