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Description: | Graham Sutherland's painting evokes the profound stillness that enveloped the ruined City of London after the Blitz. Sutherland later wrote of his impressions of the City in the immediate aftermath of its ordeal.
'I will never forget those extraordinary first encounters: the silence, the absolute dead silence, except every now and then a thin tinkle of falling glass - a noise which reminded me of the music of Debussy'.
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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