British Landscapes: A Sense of Place

This major exhibition will bring the British landscape to life
through the eyes of some of the 20th century’s most inspiring
artists. It will explore works from 1910 to 1970 that reimagined
the countryside and coastlines of the British Isles as powerful
symbols of cultural identity, creativity and resilience in a
turbulent century. The exhibition will capture how landscapes
reflected changing ways of life, national identity and wartime
anxieties.
Drawn from the Gallery’s renowned Modern British collection
and prestigious long-term loans, British Landscapes: A Sense of
Place will showcase works by celebrated figures including Ivon
Hitchens' Curved Barn (1922) showing a barn at Heyshott in
Sussex, Graham Sutherland's pastoral etchings of Kent such as
Pecken Wood (1925) and The Village (1925), Paul Nash's
Wittenham (1935) showing an iron age hill fort in Oxfordshire,
Eric Ravilious' Cerne Abbas Giant (1939) showing the Wiltshire
chalk figure covered with earth at the start of the Second World
War, and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's Snow at Wharfedale
(1957), an abstract response to the Yorkshire landscape.
Spanning British Post-Impressionism, the pastoral printmaking
revival of the 1920s, Surrealism, and the emergence of the bold
postwar abstraction of St Ives and beyond, British Landscapes: A
Sense of Place offers a fresh look at how art reflected the shifting
landscape of a nation.