- Artist
- Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
- Medium
- Graphite, ink, watercolour and crayon on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 380 × 568 mm
frame: 650 × 817 × 35 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
- Reference
- N05712
Catalogue entry
N05712 SHELTERERS IN THE TUBE 1941
Inscr. ‘Moore 41’ b.r.
Pen, chalk, watercolour and gouache, 15×22 (38×56).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, Australia and New Zealand, 1941.
Repr: Read, 1944, pl.186; V. & A., Twentieth Century British Water-Colours, 1958, pl.32.
See N05706. Based on a drawing in the Shelter Sketch-Books (repr. Editions Poetry London, 1944).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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