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Article: Sutherland's belated homecoming: renewed interest in painter Graham Sutherland's work has led to a recent series of U.K. exhibitions marking the centenary of his birth.(Report From England)(Biography)
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- Art in America
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- January 1, 2004
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During the 1940s and '50s, Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) was widely regarded as Britain's most important painter. In the country's depressed postwar period, Sutherland, along with Henry Moore, was credited with helping to pull British art out of the doldrums of prewar provincialism and into the arena of the international avant-garde. Sutherland's colorful, quasi-abstract canvases featuring spiky organic forms and jagged, shifting planes, often inspired by the rugged terrain of Wales, were viewed by many as welcome antidotes to the staid academicism of much English art of the period. He represented Britain at the 1952 Venice Biennale with a well-received exhibition that ...