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Pastoral
Purchased 1970
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<p>During the 1920s Sutherland produced a series of prints and drawings directly inspired by the example of Samuel Palmer. The series culminated in this work, whose simplified forms and detailed technique recall Palmer. However, the strange shadows and bizarrely gnarled and twisted tree trunks strike a more personal note. Here Sutherland transforms the Palmeresque evocation of an Arcadian idyll into a more pagan image, replacing traditional Christian symbolism with animistic forces. The sense of brooding drama seen here was developed in Sutherland's landscape paintings of the late 1930s and early 1940s.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print etching
15 June 2005 – 14 December 2005
2005-12-14
15 June 2005 – 25 September 2005
2005-09-25
2005-06-15
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
15 October 2005 – 14 December 2005
2005-12-14
2005-10-15
Djanogly Art Gallery (Nottingham, UK)
2005-06-15
Graham Sutherland
Loan-out
1 April 2006 – 16 April 2007
2007-04-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-01
Blake in the 1940s
Collection based display
23 January 2010 – 21 March 2010
2010-03-21
23 January 2010 – 21 March 2010
2010-03-21
2010-01-23
Towner (Eastbourne, UK)
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
2010-01-23
Dark Monarch; Magic and Modernity in British Art
Loan-out
22 July 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
6 August 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
2010-08-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-07-22
Neo-Romantics
Collection based display
30 August 2011 – 19 April 2012
2012-04-19
30 August 2011 – 19 April 2012
2012-04-19
2011-08-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-08-30
Neo-Romantics
Collection based display
13 May 2013 – 6 October 2013
2013-10-06
13 May 2013 – 6 October 2013
2013-10-06
2013-05-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-13
Landscape in Blake
Collection based display
30 March 2018 – 17 June 2018
2018-06-17
2 April 2018 – 17 June 2018
2018-06-17
2018-04-02
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2018-03-30
Ken's Show: Exploring the Unseen
Collection based display
12 August 2019 – 17 March 2020
2020-03-17
12 August 2019
2019-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2019-08-12
Blake Followers
Collection based display
Pastoral
image: 130 × 190 mm
support: 169 × 228 mm
Purchased 1970
<p>During the 1920s Sutherland produced a series  of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> directly inspired by the example of Samuel Palmer. The series culminated in this work, whose simplified forms and detailed technique recall Palmer. However, the strange shadows and bizarrely gnarled and twisted  tree trunks strike a more personal note. Here Sutherland transforms the Palmeresque evocation of an Arcadian idyll into a more pagan image, replacing traditional Christian symbolism with animistic forces. The sense of brooding drama seen here was developed in Sutherland's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of the late 1930s and  early 1940s. 
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<b>Graham Sutherland 1903-1980</b>
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<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sutherland-pastoral-p07117" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07117</span></a> Pastoral 1930</p>
<p>Inscribed ‘Pastoral’ b.l., ‘Graham Sutherland’ b.r. and ‘4’ on verso.<br/>Etching, 5 x 7<b>½ </b>(12<b>.</b>5 x 19) on paper 6<b>¿ </b>x 8<b>¿</b> (17 x 22<b>.</b>5).<br/>Purchased from Thos. Agnew &amp; Sons (Gytha Trust) 1970.<br/>
<i>Coll:</i> Mrs A.M. Bernard-Smith.<br/>
<i>Exh: From the Pre-Raphaelites to Picasso II,</i> Agnew, June–July 1970 (116).<br/>
<i>Lit:</i> Edward Sackville-West,<i> Graham Sutherland</i>,1943, p.7, repr. pl.2; Douglas Cooper,<i> The Work of Graham Sutherland</i>, 1961, p. 69, repr. pl.4b; Felix H. Man,<i> Graham Sutherland: das graphische Werk 1922–1970,</i> 1970, No. 34, repr.</p>
<p>Sutherland began his career and originally made his reputation as an etcher.’ Pastoral’ was made shortly before he more or less abandoned the medium in 1930, because of the collapse of the market for etchings in England, and turned instead to painting. It is also perhaps his first work to show clear indications of his later, more characteristic style, particularly in its use of dramatic shadows, twisting, monster-like forms and dream-like atmosphere.</p>
<p>According to Felix Man there were four states, but the plate was never published; there exist only a small number of trial proofs printed by the artist. <span>P07117</span>, with a detailed treatment of the sky, foreground areas and fence, is of the final state. In 1970 the plate was still in existence.</p>
<p>Published in<i> The Tate Gallery Report 1970–1972</i>, London 1972.</p>
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2012-07-27T00:00:00
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architecture cloud emotions, concepts and ideas landscape menace natural phenomena shadow townscapes / man-made features trunk, blasted universal concepts wall weather wooded