Watercolour, gouache, ink and chalk on paper
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Shelter Scene Bunks and Sleepers
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
actions: processes and functions
adults
air raid
architecture
Blitz
Blitz, London, 1940-42
figure
history
interiors
military: World War II
people
public and municipal
public and municipal
sleeping
underground station
underground station
<p>This picture was exhibited at an exhibition called War Pictures at the National Gallery in 1941. It was also reproduced in the exhibition catalogue. In his catalogue essay, the critic Eric Newton compared  the war between Germany and Britain  to 'the fundamental opposition between the sea's restless power and the land's opposing firmness'. The wave-like undulations of the figures lying in the foreground of the drawing and the vertical cliff of figures on the bunks correspond remarkably with Newton's analogy.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour gouache ink chalk
5 August 2002 – 13 April 2003
2003-04-13
5 August 2002 – 13 April 2003
2003-04-13
2002-08-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-08-05
Henry Moore in the 1940s
Collection based display
1 June 2005 – 31 August 2005
2005-08-31
1 June 2005 – 31 August 2005
2005-08-31
2005-06-01
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
1 October 2005 – 1 March 2006
2006-03-01
2005-10-01
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey  (Monterrey, Mexico)
http://www.marco.org.mx
2005-06-01
Henry Moore and Mexico
Loan-out
4 June 2005 – 9 October 2005
2005-10-09
28 May 2005 – 9 October 2005
2005-10-09
2005-05-28
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
4 November 2005 – 19 February 2006
2006-02-19
2005-11-04
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey  (Monterrey, Mexico)
http://www.marco.org.mx
2005-06-04
Moore and Mexico
Loan-out
1 September 2006 – 31 March 2007
2007-03-31
1 September 2006 – 31 March 2007
2007-03-31
2006-09-01
Imperial War Museum (London, UK)
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
2006-09-01
Henry Moore: War and Utility
Loan-out
8 May 2011 – 28 August 2011
2011-08-28
8 May 2011 – 28 August 2011
2011-08-28
2011-05-08
State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg, Russia)
2011-05-08
Shelter Drawings
Loan-out
28 May 2014 – 6 October 2014
2014-10-06
28 May 2014 – 6 October 2014
2014-10-06
2014-05-28
Musée du Louvre-Lens (Lens, France)
2014-05-28
Les désastres de la guerre 1800-2014
Loan-out
29 January 2015 – 25 May 2015
2015-05-25
29 January 2015 – 25 May 2015
2015-05-25
2015-01-29
Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern, Switzerland)
http://www.zpk.org
2015-01-29
Henry Moore from the Tate
Loan-out
24 September 2015 – 30 November 2017
2017-11-30
24 September 2015 – 10 January 2016
2016-01-10
2015-09-24
Museo Nazionale Romano - Baths of Diocletian (Rome, Italy)
11 November 2016 – 19 March 2017
2017-03-19
2016-11-11
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
2015-09-24
Henry Moore
Tate partnerships & programmes
5 April 2019 – 27 October 2019
2019-10-27
5 April 2019 – 27 October 2019
2019-10-27
2019-04-05
Henry Moore Foundation (Perry Green, UK)
2019-04-05
Henry Moore Drawings
Loan-out
Shelter Scene: Bunks and Sleepers
support: 483 × 432 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p>
This picture was exhibited at an exhibition called War Pictures at the National Gallery in 1941. It was also reproduced in the exhibition catalogue. In his catalogue essay, the critic Eric Newton compared <br/>
the war between Germany and Britain <br/>
to 'the fundamental opposition between the sea's restless power and the land's opposing firmness'. The wave-like undulations of the figures lying in the foreground of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> and the vertical cliff of figures on the bunks correspond remarkably with Newton's analogy.</p>
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N05711</b> SHELTER SCENE: BUNKS AND SHELTERS 1941</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pen, chalk, watercolour and gouache, 19×17 (48×43).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery, 1941–2 and 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (190); Wakefield and Manchester, April–July 1949 (100).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Eric Newton, <i>War Pictures at the National Gallery</i>, 1941 (in colour); <i>Studio</i>, CXXIII, 1942, p.11; Read, 1944, pl.191a.</p>
<p>See <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-grey-tube-shelter-n05706" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05706</span></a>. The Shelter Sketch-Books contain a much less detailed version, inscribed ‘People in bunks’, as well as a similar <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> in reverse (repr. Editions Poetry London, 1944).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: processes and functions adults air raid architecture Blitz Blitz, London, 1940-42 figure history interiors military: World War II people public and municipal public and municipal sleeping underground station underground station