Graham Sutherland, O.M.

Graham Sutherland, O.M.

A landscape, still life and portrait painter, Sutherland studied at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art 1920–5, where he specialized in engraving and etching. Inspired by William Blake, Samuel Palmer, the late J.M.W. Turner, Paul Nash and Henry Moore, he started exhibiting with the London Group in 1932 and held his first one-man show at the Paul Rosenberg and Helft Gallery in 1938. An Official War Artist during the Second World War, Sutherland painted scenes of bomb devastation and of work in mines and foundries. Important retrospective exhibitions have been held at the I.C.A. 1951, the Venice Biennale and the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris 1952 and at the Tate Gallery 1953. Sutherland was awarded the OM in 1960.