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Edward Burra (1905-1976), War in the Sun, 1938, watercolour on paper © Estate of the Artist, co Lefevre Fine Art Ltd., London.
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Graham Sutherland, Welsh Landscape With Yellow Lane (1939-40). Photograph Estate of Graham Sutherland.
Exhibition
The Age of Turmoil: Burra, Spencer, Sutherland
18 Jan 2020 – 29 Mar 2020
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Address
- Hastings Contemporary
- Rock-a-nore Road
- Hastings
England - TN34 3DW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The 20, 100 and 101 buses from Hastings train station stop at the Stade bus stop which is a short walk away.
- Hastings Contemporary is approximately 15 minutes’ walk from Hastings train station. Direct train services run regularly to London, Brighton and Ashford International.
The Age of Turmoil features work by three ground-breaking Modern British artists: Edward Burra (1905-1976), Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) and Graham Sutherland (1903-1980).
About
Painted between the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, the work all shares a sense of the anxiety, discomfort and fear that many people felt during this turbulent historical period.
Sutherland and Spencer both served during World War II as official war artists. Spencer had also served during World War I in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Macedonia. Edward Burra’s severe rheumatoid arthritis meant that he was unable to serve during WWII, but his hometown of Rye became a centre for military activity, and soldiers and the horrors of war featured heavily in his paintings during this period.
Hastings Contemporary would like to thank Daniel Katz and his team for their generous, intelligent and open approach to the development of this exhibition, and Southampton City Art Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, the Ingram Collection, and the private lenders who have generously loaned their work. We would also like to thank our trustee Nicholas Maclean for all his work on this exhibition.
