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- 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
- N05710
Display caption
Pale Shelter Scene, like Woman Seated
in the Underground, was exhibited
at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York in the summer of 1941, as part of an exhibition called Britain at War. Moore's drawings were presented as modernist interpretations of the tragedy of war.
Popular opinion in the United States was still largely against military involvement
in the war. The exhibition's narrative
of a brother civilisation under threat complemented a wider propaganda campaign to encourage popular support for American intervention.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
N05710 PALE SHELTER SCENE 1941
Not inscribed.
Pen, chalk, watercolour and gouache, 19×17 (48·5×43).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: Britain at War, New York, and Canadian and U.S. tour, 1941–4 (repr. p.70); Modern Drawings, New York and U.S. tour, 1944–5 (repr. p.81).
Repr: Read, 1944, pl.184b.
See N05706. Based on two drawings in the Shelter Sketch-Books, one inscribed ‘Platform scenes of sleeping people’ (repr. Editions Poetry London, 1944, the uninscribed one in colour).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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