Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1941
Devastation: East End, study of wrecked houses, 1941
In August 1940, Sutherland was commissioned by the Ministry of Home Security ‘to make pictures of debris and damage caused by air raids.’ He concentrated on the City of London before being sent to the badly bombed, densely populated East End.
The City buildings, he wrote: ‘were offices and people weren’t in them at night. But in the East End one did think of the hurt to people and there was every evidence of it.’
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 2015.69/5
- Object name:
- Devastation: East End, study of wrecked houses, 1941
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Sutherland, Graham
- Related people:
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- Related events:
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- Production date:
- 1941
- Material:
- paper, pencil, ink, wash, gouache
- Measurements/duration:
- H 130 mm, W 164 mm (paper), H 171 mm, W 217 mm (paper support)
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 60%
- Part of this object:
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- Credit:
- Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund
- Copyright holder:
- Museum of London
- Image credit:
- © Museum of London
- Creative commons usage:
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