Editing Graham Sutherland (section)

===Early life===
Graham Sutherland was born in [[Streatham]], London, the eldest of three children of George Humphrey Vivian Sutherland (1873–1952), a barrister who later became a civil servant in the [[HM Land Registry|Land Registry]] and the [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Board of Education]], and his wife Elsie (1877–1957), née Foster.<ref name="RBerthoud">{{cite ODNB | url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31737 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31737 | year=2004 |author= Roger Berthoud |title=Sutherland, Graham Vivian (1903–1980), painter and printmaker }}</ref> Both were amateur painters and musicians.<ref name="JKing">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/graham-sutherland-the-evolution-of-a-twentieth-century-master|title=Graham Sutherland: the evolution of a twentieth-century master |author=Jade King |date=24 August 2021|website=[[Art UK]] |access-date= 21 July 2022}}</ref> Graham Sutherland attended [[Homefield Preparatory School]] in [[Sutton, London|Sutton]] and was then educated at [[Epsom College]] in [[Surrey]] until 1919. Upon leaving school, after some preliminary coaching in art, Sutherland began an engineering apprenticeship at the [[Midland Railway]] locomotive works in [[Derby]] where several members of the extended Sutherland family had previously worked.<ref name="Darkness">{{cite book |author=Paul Gough, Sally Moss & Tehmina Goskar |publisher=Sansom & Company|year=2013|title= Graham Sutherland From Darkness into Light, Mining, Metal and Machines|isbn=978-1-908326-38-6}}</ref> After a year, Sutherland succeeded in persuading his father that he was not destined for a career in engineering and that he should be allowed to study art. After failing to gain a place at his first choice, the [[Slade School of Fine Art|Slade School of Art]], he entered [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths' School of Art]] in 1921, specialising in [[engraving]] and [[etching]] before graduating in 1926.<ref name="alley">{{cite book |author= Ronald Alley|title=Graham Sutherland |year=1982|publisher=Tate Gallery|isbn=9780905005485}}</ref> In both 1925 and 1928, Sutherland exhibited drawings and engravings at the XXI Gallery in London.<ref name="ODNBgs">{{cite book |editor= HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 53 (Strang-Taylor)|isbn=0-19-861403-9}}</ref> While still a student, Sutherland established a reputation as a fine printmaker and commercial printmaking would be his main source of income throughout the late 1920s.<ref name="Darkness"/><ref name="JKing"/> His early prints of pastoral subjects show the influence of [[Samuel Palmer]], largely mediated by the older etcher, [[F.L. Griggs]].