The artwork “Western Hills” by Graham Sutherland, created between 1938 and 1941, is an oil painting on canvas belonging to the Neo-Romanticism movement and falls under the landscape genre. This distinguished piece is currently housed in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, UK.
In the artwork, the viewer is presented with an evocative landscape scene characterized by undulating hills. The color palette is rich and earthy, dominated by dark tones juxtaposed with splashes of bright colors that accentuate certain parts of the terrain. The composition carries a dreamlike quality, enhanced by a mysterious yellow orb in the sky, possibly representing the sun or moon, casting an ethereal light over the landscape. The texture and brushstrokes exhibit a sense of depth and movement, inviting the observer into a meditative contemplation of nature’s rugged beauty as interpreted through Graham Sutherland’s unique Neo-Romantic lens.
