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Medium

lithograph in green and black on Arches wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 65.7 x 49.5 cm (25 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.)

Classification

Portfolio

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner

Accession Number

1990.106.21

About the Artist

Graham Sutherland

Graham Sutherland (1903–1980) was one of the most significant British painters of the twentieth century, whose intensely personal vision fused a deep feeling for landscape with a sense of organic menace that placed him at the forefront of British Neo-Romanticism. He studied at the Goldsmiths College of Art in London during the early 1920s, training initially as an engraver and etcher in a traditio...

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