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Road at Porthclais with setting sun

SUTHERLAND, Graham

Road at Porthclais with setting sun
Image: © Estate of Graham Sutherland/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Graham Sutherland first visited Pembrokeshire in 1934 and was profoundly influenced by the landscape he encountered there. When he returned in the last decade of his life, he rediscovered this inspiration and embarked on a fresh series of celebratory paintings. A love letter to the landscape, works such as Road at Porthclais with Setting Sun highlight the beauty of Pembrokeshire and commemorate the way Sutherland felt when visiting. He wrote that this late series of paintings expressed the “intellectual and emotional” essence of a place.

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Details


Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 2267

Creation/Production

SUTHERLAND, Graham
Date: 1975

Acquisition

Transfer, 20/10/1989

Techniques

Oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
Art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting

Material

Oil
Canvas

Location

In store
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  • Coastal Village
  • Communities And Society
  • Fine Art
  • Landscape Features
  • Natural World
  • Painting
  • Road
  • Sunset
  • Sutherland, Graham
  • Travel And Transport

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