Black Mountains and Lake
Graham Vivian Sutherland (London 1903 – London 1980)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1948
Materials
Gouache on paper
Measurements
432 x 514 mm
Place of origin
Wales
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769739.1
Caption
Sutherland joined the London Group in 1937, and like fellow member John Piper would also become an Official War Artist. The landscape of Wales signified an important part in Sutherland’s development as an artist: ‘it was in this country that I began to learn painting’. His response to the landscape was not to record what he saw, but to experience an emotional essence that he then had to learn to paraphrase in his painting. Here the landscape - its colours, shapes, and meaning for Sutherland - has been internalised and re-interpreted with intensity and imagination. In his final vision we see hints of sunset, seed pods and lanes that wind through tunnels of trees.
Summary
Gouache on paper, Black Mountains and Lake by Graham Vivian Sutherland (London 1903 – London 1980), 1948. Large black mountain silhouette with lake in foreground in orange and pink.
Provenance
The Redfern Gallery, March 1948; Purchased by Derek Hill (1916 - 2000). By whom presented to the National Trust for Mottisfont through The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund), 1996 .
Credit line
Mottisfont Abbey,The Derek Hill Collection (presented to the National Trust through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1996)
Makers and roles
Graham Vivian Sutherland (London 1903 – London 1980), artist