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Graham Sutherland was born in London 1903 and died in 1980. He studied at Goldsmiths College of Art and lived in Menton, France.
His early works were etchings in the tradition of Samuel Palmer but from 1935 he turned to painting in oil, gouache and watercolour. He established a reputation as a Romantic painter whose expression is so personal and intense that he stands outside all current schools of painting. He is often referred to as a landscape painter, but out of rocks, thorns, flowers or objects that stir his imagination he creates his own organic forms with an image often strange and foreboding - for example, Study No. 321 for the Origins of Land. He is probably best known to the public for the huge tapestry he designed for Coventry Cathedral and his portraits of Somerset Maugham and Lord Beaverbrook. He has had retrospective exhibitions in major galleries of Europe and his works are in the Musee de l’Art Moderne, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Tate and many other national galleries.
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