Ink, watercolour, crayon and gouache on paper
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A Tilbury Shelter Scene
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
air raid shelter
architecture
Blitz
Blitz, London, 1940-42
child
children
crowd
documentary
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
England, South East
England, Southern
formal qualities
groups
history
industrial
Kent
man
military: World War II
people
places
public and municipal
reclining
sheltering
sitting
texture
Tilbury - non-specific
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
underground station
warehouse
woman
<p>During the winter of 1940-1 Moore,  in his capacity as a war artist, was given access to London's public shelters. Though he concentrated on underground stations, he did make drawings of other shelters, including a vast area in the basement of a warehouse in Tilbury where he noted 'Figures lying against platform with great bales of paper above also making beds¿ Dramatic, dismal  lit, masses of reclining figures fading  to perspective point - Scribbles and scratches, chaotic foreground¿  Dark wet settings'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique ink watercolour crayon gouache
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
24 February 2010 – 12 June 2011
2011-06-12
24 February 2010 – 8 August 2010
2010-08-08
2010-02-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
11 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
2011-06-12
2011-03-11
Leeds Art Gallery (Leeds, UK)
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/
2010-02-24
Henry Moore
Exhibition
1 September 2010 – 15 April 2011
2011-04-15
11 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
2011-06-12
2011-03-11
Leeds Art Gallery (Leeds, UK)
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/
2010-09-01
Henry Moore
Loan-out
19 May 2014 – 10 August 2014
2014-08-10
19 May 2014 – 10 August 2014
2014-08-10
2014-05-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-05-19
Kenneth Clark
Exhibition
7 February 2020 – 1 November 2020
2020-11-01
7 February 2020 – 1 November 2020
2020-11-01
2020-02-07
The Hepworth Wakefield (Wakefield, UK)
2020-02-07
Bill Brandt / Henry Moore
Loan-out
A Tilbury Shelter Scene
support: 419 × 381 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p>
During the winter of 1940-1 Moore, <br/>
in his capacity as a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/war-artists" title="Glossary definition for 'War Artists'"><span>war artist</span></a>, was given access to London's public shelters. Though he concentrated on underground stations, he did make <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>drawings</span></a> of other shelters, including a vast area in the basement of a warehouse in Tilbury where he noted 'Figures lying against platform with great bales of paper above also making beds¿ Dramatic, dismal <br/>
lit, masses of reclining figures fading <br/>
to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspective</span></a> point - Scribbles and scratches, chaotic foreground¿ <br/>
Dark wet settings'.</p>
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N05708</b> A TILBURY SHELTER SCENE 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Inscr. ‘Moore 41’ b.l.
<br/>Pen, chalk, wash and gouache, 16 1/2×15 (42×38).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (170); Arts Council, Tate Gallery, 1951 (140).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Read and Sylvester, I, 1957, p.228; Hodin, 1958, pl.31.</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 preparatory <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> in one of the Shelter Sketch-Books is inscribed ‘Piles of bricks, figures against them (far end of Tilbury shelter)’ (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
<br/></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults air raid shelter architecture Blitz Blitz, London, 1940-42 child children crowd documentary emotions, concepts and ideas England England, South East England, Southern formal qualities groups history industrial Kent man military: World War II people places public and municipal reclining sheltering sitting texture Tilbury - non-specific UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions underground station warehouse woman