Etching and aquatint on paper
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Clegyr Boia
Presented by the artist 1970
Clegyr-Boia
hill
landscape
natural phenomena
Pembrokeshire
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rocky
shadow
UK counties
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Wales
<p>This print is shows Clegyr Boia, the rocky outcrop west of St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Sutherland visited the area each summer from 1934 to 1939. His pensive and atmospheric Welsh landscapes came to be seen as premonitions of war, expressive of the prevailing mood of anxiety and menace. Many critics identified him as a descendant of Blake; Graham Bell, for example, wrote: Sutherland is the phoenix Blake, the burning mystic making a black sun in a brazen world... Sutherland has called up most powerfully a poetic apprehension of our time.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print etching aquatint
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
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
Clegyr Boia
image: 124 × 188 mm
support: 168 × 227 mm
Presented by the artist 1970
<p>This <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>print</span></a> is shows Clegyr Boia, the rocky  outcrop west of St David's, Pembrokeshire,  Wales. Sutherland visited the area each summer from 1934 to 1939. His pensive and atmospheric Welsh <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>landscapes</span></a> came to be seen as premonitions of war, expressive of the prevailing mood of anxiety and menace. Many critics identified him as a descendant of Blake; Graham Bell, for example, wrote: 
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Sutherland is the phoenix Blake, the burning  mystic making a black sun in a brazen  world... Sutherland has called up most powerfully  a poetic apprehension of our time.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<b>Graham Sutherland OM 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-clegyr-boia-p02068" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02068</span></a> Clegyr Boia 1938</p>
<p>Inscribed ‘Herons’ b.l.<br/>Etching and aquatint, 7<b>¾ </b>x 5<b>¿</b> (19<b>.</b>7 x 15) on paper 9<b>¿ </b>x 7<b>¼</b> (24<b>.</b>5 x 18<b>.</b>5). Presented by the artist 1970.<br/>
<i>Lit:</i> Douglas Cooper,<i> The Work of Graham Sutherland,</i> 1961, p. 69, repr. pl.4a as ‘Welsh Landscape’ and incorrectly dated 1936; Felix H. Man,<i> Graham Sutherland: das graphische Werk 1922–1970,</i> 1970, No. 37, repr. as ‘Clegyr-Boia, a landscape in Wales’.</p>
<p>This etching was the frontispiece to<i> Signature,</i> No.9, published in March 1938. <i>Signature</i> was a magazine devoted to typography and the graphic arts, edited by Oliver Simon and published by the Curwen Press; an article by Sutherland on ‘A Trend in English Draughtsmanship’ appeared in the third issue in July 1936.</p>
<p>According to Felix Man, there was only a single state of this etching, which was printed in an edition of about 1000, plus a few artist’s proofs; the plate was subsequently destroyed. The subject reflects Sutherland’s new interest in the landscape of Wales. Both subject and treatment are similar to some of his watercolours and oils of the same period, such as ‘Black Landscape’ 1937 (Cooper, pl. IOC) or ‘sun setting between Hills’ 1938 (Cooper, pl. 14a). Sutherland writes (letter of 18 August 1972) that ‘the word “Herons” half obliterated at the bottom centre was intended to be the title “Herons Ghyl” which I later abandoned’.</p>
<p>Published in<i> The Tate Gallery Report 1970–1972</i>, London 1972.</p>
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Catalogue entry
2012-07-27T00:00:00
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Clegyr-Boia hill landscape natural phenomena Pembrokeshire places rocky shadow UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features Wales