Graphite, chalk and ink on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-david-low-1529" aria-label="More by Sir David Low" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir David Low</a>
Dick Sheppard and Aldous Huxley
Presented by the artist 1944
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
arm / arms raised
caricature
cartoon / comic strip
embracing
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
gesticulating
groups
history
Hitler, Adolf
Huxley, Aldous
individuals: male
man
named individuals
people
politics and society
politics: Nazi Germany, 1933-45
portraits
Sheppard, Dick
social comment
society
Stalin, Joseph
war
weeping
paper unique graphite chalk ink
9 June 2010 – 5 September 2010
2010-09-05
9 June 2010 – 5 September 2010
2010-09-05
2010-06-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-06-09
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
Exhibition
Dick Sheppard and Aldous Huxley
support: 419 × 610 mm
Presented by the artist 1944
<p><b>N05464</b> DICK SHEPPARD AND ALDOUS HUXLEY 1938
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Low’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil, chalk and ink, 16 1/2×24 (42×61).
<br/>Presented by the artist 1944.</p>
<p>Dick Sheppard and Aldous Huxley were among those who advocated passive resistance in the years preceding the 1914–18 war. Low discusses this attitude, and a similar cartoon of 1936, in his <i>Autobiography</i>, 1956, pp.301–6. <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/low-dick-sheppard-and-aldous-huxley-n05464" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05464</span></a> was drawn for a double page illustration to an article by Rebecca West in <i>Nash's Magazine</i>, 1938.</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, I
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2004-07-21T00:00:00
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults arm / arms raised caricature cartoon / comic strip embracing emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities gesticulating groups history Hitler, Adolf Huxley, Aldous individuals: male man named individuals people politics and society politics: Nazi Germany, 1933-45 portraits Sheppard, Dick social comment society Stalin, Joseph war weeping