Graham Sutherland, O.M (1903–1980) Sutherland's work of this period may be seen as reflecting the devastating war that was destroying cities and killing innocent people in Britain and Europe. Like the work of
Romantic poets and artists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sutherland's drawings and paintings ask us to believe that the landscape has the power to express the pathos of the human world that inhabits it.
These ideas were much in evidence in Britain at this time, finding voice and image in New Apocalypse poetry and other Neo-Romantic art. Bequeathed by Hal Burton in 1987, D.1987.20
Plants and Tree Shapes Before Hills, 1944
Black chalk, Indian ink, bodycolor, traces of oil paint,
and some surface scratching, on paper mounted on card