Graham Sutherland O.M. R.A.
Sutherland studied etching at Goldsmiths College of Art. He is best known for his surreal, organic oil paintings inspired by the wild coastline of Pembrokeshire. He was a member of the 1940s neo-Romantic movement and, like the 19th century Romantics, eulogised a natural British landscape unspoiled by industrialisation and war. He had worked as a War Artist in Britain from 1940-1945. He is also remembered for his somewhat controversial portraits. Winston Churchill detested the portrait of him as a declining old man. At the official unveiling he said, tongue firmly in cheek, "It is a remarkable piece of modern art - it certainly combines force and candour". Churchill's wife had the painting burnt a year or two later...
Born: 1903
Place of Birth: Streatham, London
Died: 1980
