- Artist
- Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
- Medium
- Watercolour, gouache, ink and chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 483 × 432 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
- Reference
- N05711
Catalogue entry
N05711 SHELTER SCENE: BUNKS AND SHELTERS 1941
Not inscribed.
Pen, chalk, watercolour and gouache, 19×17 (48×43).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, National Gallery, 1941–2 and 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (190); Wakefield and Manchester, April–July 1949 (100).
Repr: Eric Newton, War Pictures at the National Gallery, 1941 (in colour); Studio, CXXIII, 1942, p.11; Read, 1944, pl.191a.
See N05706. The Shelter Sketch-Books contain a much less detailed version, inscribed ‘People in bunks’, as well as a similar composition in reverse (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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