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The use of images of works of art reproduced on this website and all other content may be restricted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Download Paintings Graham Sutherland 1954 Winston Churchill Download Paintings Graham Sutherland 1954 Winston Churchill. The National Portrait Gallery respects the artistic and intellectual property rights of others. Copyright in all materials and/or works comprising or contained within this website remains with the National Portrait Gallery and other copyright owners as specified. This website comprises and contains copyrighted materials and works. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. Major retrospective exhibitions were held at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1951, the Venice Biennale and the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris in 1952, the Tate Gallery in 1953, and at the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil in 1955. He also designed posters, ceramics, book illustrations, and ballet costumes and décor. Between 19 he was commissioned to design the Coventry Cathedral tapestry, installed in 1962.

WINSTON CHURCHILL PAINTING BY GRAHAM SUTHERLAND 1954 SERIES
In 1949, he painted a portrait of Somerset Maugham, which is credited with reviving English interest in portraiture and initiated a series including Lord Beaverbrook, Churchill and others. He held his first New York exhibition at the Buchholz Gallery in 1946, and in the same year completed a representation of the crucifixion for St Matthew's Church, Northampton. During the Second World War he was an official war artist, often depicting scenes of bomb damage. In the 1930s he began painting surreal landscapes in oils and in 1936 was represented in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. He first exhibited drawings and engravings at the XXI Gallery, London, in 1925 and was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers from 1926 to 1933 during this period he taught, and illustrated books. Having begun an apprenticeship as a railway engineer, Sutherland studied at Goldsmith's School of Art for five years during the 1920s, concentrating on engraving and etching. Graham Sutherland OM (1903–1980) was an English artist, best known as the painter of the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill aged 80, subsequently destroyed by the sitter's wife, Clementine.
