Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1941
City of London Twisted Girders, 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:
- 2015.69/9
- Object name:
- City of London Twisted Girders, 1941
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Sutherland, Graham
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- Production date:
- 1941
- Material:
paper, ink, wax crayon, chalk, gouache
- Measurements/duration:
- H 140 mm, W 96 mm (paper), H 206 mm, W 155 mm (paper support)
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 60%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund
- Copyright holder:
London Museum
- Image credit:
© London Museum
- Creative commons usage:
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