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SUTHERLAND, Graham Vivian (1903-1980). Three autograph letters signed to Humphrey Brooke, Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, Roquebrune, Cap Martin, 27 March 1954, thanking Brooke for his support during 'this unpleasant matter' following a piece in the Guardian about Sutherland and his works in the Tate, 2½ pages, 4to , and White House, Trottiscliffe, West Malling, 23 March 1965, 4 pages, 8vo , and Cottage Dominic, St Jean - Cap Ferrat, n.d., titled 'Private & Confidential', concerning a 'disgraceful & a gross breach of trust', 1 1/3 pages, folio ; SUTHERLAND, typed letter signed to Brooke, La Villa Blanche, Menton, 15 October 1966 with annotations and postscript in manuscript, concerning Le Roux, 2 pages, 8vo ; [with] copies of two letters from Brooke, (September and October 1966), one to Douglas Cooper; Douglas COOPER, autograph letter signed to Brooke, a fierce letter, 'the Tate Gallery still is a world-side joke' 3 pages, 4to . A revealing group of letters which show Sutherland's uneasy relations with the Tate Gallery, one letter in the year of his resignation as a Trustee. He gives detailed reasons why he must refuse an inviation to exhibit at the Royal Academy, 'while I appreciate the efforts made ... to 'liberalise' the Academy, there are still expressions of opinion made about art ... which I hold dear which would prevent me from showing under its roof ... a misunderstanding of what so called modern art is about'. Sutherland thanks Brooke for his 'intervention re the Churchill portrait .. I am certain it does exist'; painted in 1954, Sutherland's portrait of Churchill was destroyed by his wife Clementine. (7)