Etching on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/graham-sutherland-om-2014" aria-label="More by Graham Sutherland OM" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Graham Sutherland OM</a>
Pecken Wood
Presented by the artist 1970
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
architecture
carrying / holding
emotions, concepts and ideas
firewood
haystack
heating and lighting
idyll
landscape
man
natural phenomena
objects
people
road
shadow
sunbeam
sunset
times of the day
townscapes / man-made features
universal concepts
village
weather
wooded
woodman
work and occupations
<p>Sutherland saw an etching by Samuel Palmer when he was studying printmaking in the early 1920s. He later recalled 'I was amazed at its completeness... [It was] quite new to us that the complex variety of the multiplicity of lines could form a tone of such luminosity. It seemed to me wonderful that a strong emotion, such as was Palmer's, could change and transform the appearance of things.' Like Palmer and 'The Ancients', Sutherland was looking back to a purer, earlier age of art. His religious intensity is highlighted by the cross put after the date in the top right hand corner.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print etching
15 October 2001 – 7 July 2002
2002-07-07
15 October 2001 – 7 July 2002
2002-07-07
2001-10-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-15
William Blake and His Followers
Collection based display
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
2005-06-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-06-15
A Picture of Britain
Exhibition
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
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
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
Pecken Wood
image: 137 × 184 mm
Presented by the artist 1970
<p>Sutherland saw an <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etching</span></a> by Samuel Palmer when he was studying <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>printmaking</span></a> in the early 1920s. He later recalled 'I was amazed at its completeness... [It was] quite new to us that the complex variety  of the multiplicity of lines could form 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/t/tone" title="Glossary definition for 'Tone'"><span>tone</span></a> of such luminosity. It seemed to me wonderful that a strong emotion, such as was Palmer's, could change and transform the appearance of things.' Like Palmer  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/t/the-ancients" title="Glossary definition for 'The Ancients'"><span>The Ancients</span></a>', Sutherland was  looking back to a purer, earlier age of  art. His religious intensity is highlighted  by the cross put after the date in the top right hand corner.</p>
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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-pecken-wood-p02066" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02066</span></a> Pecken Wood 1925</p>
<p>Inscribed on the plate ‘GRAHAM SUTHERLAND MCMXXV +’ t.r. and in the margins ‘Final State’ b.l. and ‘Graham Sutherland’ b.r. Etching, 51/16 x 73/16 (13<b>.</b>5 x 18<b>.</b>3) on paper 7<b>½ </b>x 10<b>¼</b> (19 x 26).<br/>Presented by the artist 1970.<br/>
<i>Lit:</i> David Ogg, ‘Etchings of Graham Sutherland and Paul Drury’ and R.A. Walker, ‘ Chronological List of Etchings and Drypoints of Graham Sutherland and Paul Drury’ in<i> Print Collectors Quarterly,</i> XIV, No.1, January 1929, pp. 76–96, repr. p. 80; Douglas Cooper,<i> The Work of Graham Sutherland,</i> 1961, p.69, repr. pl. 3a; Raymond Lister,<i> Samuel Palmer and his Etchings,</i> 1969; Felix H. Man,<i> Graham Sutherland: das graphische Werk 1922–1970,</i> 1970, No. 24, repr.</p>
<p>This etching exists in five states: there was one impression of the first state, two of the second and a total of eighty-five of the third, fourth and fifth. <span>P02066</span>, which has the signature added on the plate, is of the final state. The etching was published by the Twenty-One Gallery and the plate destroyed by 1928.</p>
<p>Like ‘Cray Fields’ (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sutherland-cray-fields-p02067" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02067</span></a>) it dates from the period when Sutherland’s etchings were strongly influenced by the work of Samuel Palmer. His subjects were taken at this time from a small area of the countryside in Kent and Sussex.</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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actions: processes and functions adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing architecture carrying / holding emotions, concepts and ideas firewood haystack heating and lighting idyll landscape man natural phenomena objects people road shadow sunbeam sunset times of the day townscapes / man-made features universal concepts village weather wooded woodman work and occupations