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Article: Graham Sutherland at Guillaume Gallozzi. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), the British artist who is best remembered for his penetrating portraits of the cultural and political leaders of his time, was also an accomplished draftsman and printmaker. This exhibition of Sutherland's works on paper spanned the artist's entire career, revealing more effectively than his paintings the intensity with which the artist viewed his subjects and turned them into tortured, personal symbols of spiritual longing in the face of human atrocity.
Sutherland's early, enigmatic etchings of the British landscape reveal his desire to infuse natural phenomena with emotional power. Pastoral (1930) represents a typical English ...