Edward Bawden

Liverpool Street Station by Edward Bawden

20th Century

Richmond Park, from London Parks by Julian Trevelyan, 1969-70 Additional information: Medium: etching, aquatint and soft-ground (unframed) 58.5 x 77 cm 23 1/8 x 30 1/4 in signed, ti...

Bicycle Shop by Julian Trevelyan, 1937 Additional information: Medium: etching with hand colouring 28.5 x 38.5 cm 11 1/4 x 15 1/8 in signed, titled, dated and numbered 19/25 in penc...

Graham Sutherland was a painter of imaginative landscapes, still life, figure pieces and portraits. He was born on 24 August 1903 in London. He abandoned a railway engineering apprenticeship after a year and studied at Goldsmiths' College School of Art, where he specialized in engraving and etching. Sutherland's formative influences on his early work were Blake, Samuel Palmer, the late Turner, Paul Nash and Henry Moore. He held his first and second exhibitions of drawings and engravings at the XXI Gallery, London, in 1925 and 1928. and was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers from 1926-33. Sutherland taught engraving at the Chelsea School of Art from December 1926 and composition and book illustration 1935 to July 1940. He exhibited at the N.E.A.C. 1929-33 and with the London Group from 1932 (member 1936-7), experimenting with painting in oils from 1930 until, in 1935, the year after his first visit to Pembrokeshire, he decided to become a painter. He participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London 1936 and had his first one-man exhibition of oil paintings, mainly Welsh landscapes, at the Paul Rosenberg and Helft Gallery 1938. As an Official War Artist 1941-4 he painted scenes of bomb devastation and of work in mines and foundries. Sutherland's first New York exhibition was at the Buchholz Gallery 1946, and in the same year he completed the 'Crucifixion' for St Matthew's Church, Northampton. He taught painting at Goldsmiths' College as a visiting instructor and since 1947 worked for several months each year on the French Riviera. He was a trustee of the Tate Gallery 1948-54. Painted the portrait of Somerset Maugham 1949, the first of a series which includes Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill and others. He completed the designs for the Coventry Cathedral tapestry, 'Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph', between 1954 and 1957 (installed 1962). Has also designed posters, ceramics, book illustrations, and ballet costumes and décor for The Wanderer 1940. Important retrospective exhibitions have been held at the I.C.A. 1951, the Venice Biennale and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1952, the Tate Gallery 1953, and at the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, 1955. Awarded the O.M. 1960. Collections include the Courtauld, London, and that of David Bow

Graham Sutherland was a painter of imaginative landscapes, still life, figure pieces and portraits. He was born on 24 August 1903 in London. He abandoned a railway engineering app...

"Torre Blanca" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction etching limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white matt and light silver frame. Rufi...

Scherezade Signed and dated 1999 in pencil, Artists proof printed on 100% cotton rag colorful, harem scene w multiple figures in Arabic palace IMAGE SIZE: 17.5" x 23.5" PAPER SIZE:...

Weeping Condo 38.5 x 22 image size: 36" x 19.5" Artists proof printed on 100% cotton rag monochromatic Panoramic Dark. mysterious vintage work by Esteban Chavez

Artist: James Rosenquist (1933-2017) Title: Marco Polo Returns, State II (Glenn 152) Year: 1978 Medium: Etching and pochoir on Pescia Italia paper Edition: 28/78, plus proofs Size: 2...