The similarity between Press for Making Shells and such works as Blast Furnaces: Exterior (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery) of two years earlier, might suggest a loss of inspiration. By 1944 he was growing tired of his work as a war artist, though he assured Kenneth Clark in September 1944 that it had only recently become ‘irksome’. While the return to the theme of steel furnaces may be indicative of the perceived success of his earlier paintings, it may equally reflect the exhaustion of ideas for Sutherland’s subjects. (whereabouts unknown) LD4171, Lifting an Ingot (whereabouts unknown) and LD4172, Press for Making Shells The others were LD4169, Small Furnaces for Casting (Imperial War Museum) LD4170, Tempering Furnaces for Big Guns Furnaces was amongst these and was given the number LD4173. A new four month contract began on 31 March 1944 and he made a series of paintings of the Woolwich Arsenal, the first five of which were accepted by the WAAC on 21 June. After six months spent on depictions of steel works in South Wales, such as Feeding a Steel Furnace (Tate Gallery N05738), he had spent 1943 working on further ‘Production’ subjects: open-cast coal mining followed by limestone quarrying. Sutherland was employed by the War Artists Advisory Committee on a series of short-term contracts from June 1940 until the end of April 1945. John Russell Taylor, ‘Sutherland Revealed as a Miniaturist at Heart’, Times,, p.13įurnaces shows part of the process of arms manufacture at the Woolwich Arsenal in south-east London, one of the three historic Royal Ordnance Factories in Britain, along with those at Enfield and Waltham. Rosenthal, The Artist and War in the Twentieth Century, booklet to accompany BBC Radio 3 series of the same name, London, 1967, p.27 John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters: Wood to Hockney, London 1974, p.61 Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery: The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, II, London 1965, p.706 Michael Rothenstein, Looking at Paintings, London 1947, p.36, repr. Graham Sutherland, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Aug.-Sept. Graham Sutherland, Tate Gallery, London, May-July 1982 (113, repr.) National War Pictures, Royal Academy, London, Oct.-Nov. ? National War Pictures, National Gallery, London, 1944-5 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 Inscribed in black gouache ‘Sutherland 1944’ b.l. N05743 Oil, gouache and pencil on paper mounted on hardboard
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