Study for "Mantis" [recto]
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black chalk heightened with white chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 21.6 x 13.4 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Accession Number
1995.52.176.a
About the Artist
Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland (1903–1980) was one of the most significant British painters of the twentieth century, whose intensely personal vision fused a deep feeling for landscape with a sense of organic menace that placed him at the forefront of British Neo-Romanticism. He studied at the Goldsmiths College of Art in London during the early 1920s, training initially as an engraver and etcher in a traditio...