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FRIDAY 29 AUGUST
Presented by Francine Stock
Originally broadcast 5 May 2003
Francine Stock reassesses the career of four British artists born one hundred years ago. Edward Bawden, John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Graham Sutherland all began their artistic careers in the nineteen thirties as `neo-romantics’, attracted to a vision of Britain as a pastoral idyll.
But at the turn of the decade, all that was to change with the advent of the Second World War. As adults, they would all become official War Artists, painting a very different English landscape. Francine Stock examines the legacy of these four radical artists and finds out why their thirties and wartime output is sometimes overlooked.
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Exhibition Details
The Artists' Centenary 1903-2003 (including work by Bawden, Piper, Sutherland and Ravilious) is at the Second World War gallery of the Imperial War Museum, London. On now until February 2004. Admission free.
Ravilious: Imagined Realities, at the Imperial War Museum, London. From Thursday 24 October 2003 to 25 January 2004. Admission free.
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John Piper: A Versatile Artist, at Sherborne House, Dorset (courtesy of the collection of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex). On now until 21 September 2003. Admission £2.
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Graham Sutherland at Tate Britain, London. Tate Britain celebrates the centenary of Graham Sutherland’s birth with a display featuring many of his best-known works from the Tate collection. On now until January 2004. Admission free.
Browse the Tate's online collection of Sutherland's work
Edward Bawden: A Retrospective, at the Fine Art Society, London. From 15 September to 23rd October 2003. Admission free.
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