Etching on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
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Cray Fields
Presented by the artist 1970
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
architecture
astronomy
corn
cottage
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
England, South East
England, Southern
farmland
Farningham
fertility
harvesting
hop
idyll
Kent
landscape
man
mysticism
natural phenomena
objects
people
places
plants and flowers
plough
religion and belief
residential
shadow
star
sunbeam
sunset
times of the day
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
universal concepts
vision
weather
wooded
work and occupations
<p>Samuel Palmer, inspired by Blake's Virgil wood engravings, described them as 'like the drawing aside of the fleshly curtain, and the glimpse which all the most holy, studious saints and sages have enjoyed of the rest which remaineth to the people of God.' Sutherland's few etchings inspired by Palmer present landscape with the same sense of religious ecstasy. In this work the conjunction of the star and a dazzling sun show Sutherland enlarging the idea of simple vision into a visionary act by inviting the viewer to contemplate these heavenly bodies, just as Palmer had done.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 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 – 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
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
Cray Fields
image: 117 × 124 mm
support: 163 × 153 mm
Presented by the artist 1970
<p>Samuel Palmer, inspired by Blake's Virgil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/wood-engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Wood engraving'"><span>wood engravings</span></a>, described them as 'like the <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>drawing</span></a> aside of the fleshly curtain, and the glimpse which all the most holy, studious saints and sages have enjoyed of the rest which remaineth to the people of God.' Sutherland's few <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>etchings</span></a> inspired by Palmer present <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> with the same sense of religious ecstasy. In this work the conjunction of the star and a dazzling sun show Sutherland enlarging the idea of simple vision into  a visionary act by inviting the viewer to contemplate these heavenly bodies, just as Palmer had done.</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-cray-fields-p02067" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02067</span></a> Cray Fields 1925</p>
<p>Inscribed ‘Graham Sutherland’ b.r. and ‘No. 25’ b.r.<br/>Etching, 4<b>½ x </b>4<b>¾</b> (11<b>.</b>5 x 12<b>.</b>1) on paper 6<b>¾</b> x 6 (17<b>.</b>2 x 15<b>.</b>2).<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> XVI, No. 1, January 1929, pp. 76–96, repr. p. 75: Douglas Cooper,<i> The Work of Graham Sutherland,</i> 1961, p.69, repr. pl. 3b; Felix H. Man,<i> Graham Sutherland: das graphische Werk 1922–1970,</i> 1970, No. 25, repr.</p>
<p>There are six states of this etching: State I, three impressions; State II, two impressions; State III, two impressions; State IV, two impressions; State V, two impressions; State VI, eighty five impressions (of which <span>P02067</span> is one). The etching was published by the Twenty-One Gallery, and the plate was destroyed by 1928.</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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adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing architecture astronomy corn cottage emotions, concepts and ideas England England, South East England, Southern farmland Farningham fertility harvesting hop idyll Kent landscape man mysticism natural phenomena objects people places plants and flowers plough religion and belief residential shadow star sunbeam sunset times of the day UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions universal concepts vision weather wooded work and occupations