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Description: | Graham Sutherland's apocalyptic painting records the devastated landscape of the City of London immediately after the Blitz. Buildings stand as ruined towers amid the rubble of destruction.
Born in London, Sutherland studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art in London. He pursued a career as a printmaker in the 1920s before turning to painting.
By the time war broke out, he was established as a landscape painter whose work was highly charged with his own emotions and private mysteries. As a war artist in London he drew the bomb-ravaged landscape of the City and the East End, along with some industrial scenes at Woolwich Arsenal.
This painting is one of 20 images of wartime London allocated to the London Museum by the War Artists Advisory Committee in the late 1940s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | Cityscape London at War Art and Design | Temporal: | 1941 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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