Graphite, ink, gouache and wax on paper
Tate Collection
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Pink and Green Sleepers
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
actions: processes and functions
adults
air raid
blanket
Blitz
Blitz, London, 1940-42
figure
furnishings
history
interiors
military: World War II
objects
people
public and municipal
sleeping
underground station
<p>One critic, writing in 1943, described  the Shelter Drawings in terms of natural phenomena. He compared the strange colours, scratchy lines and pitted surfaces to 'lichen of grey rock, the coloured texture of weather-worn stone, the fiery black and red of igneous formations of burning coal'.</p><p>Such associations between Moore's shelterers and nature supported a general propaganda message that within the British people lived an indomitable,  almost elemental force which would prevail whatever the threat.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite ink gouache wax
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
18 July 2006 – 15 October 2006
2006-10-15
18 July 2006 – 15 October 2006
2006-10-15
2006-07-18
Fundació la Caixa (Barcelona, Spain)
2006-07-18
Henry Moore
Loan-out
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
22 March 2013 – 23 June 2013
2013-06-23
22 March 2013 – 7 July 2013
2013-07-07
2013-03-22
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2013-03-22
Tracing the Century
Loan-out
13 May 2013 – 30 October 2022
2022-10-30
13 May 2013
2013-05-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-13
Henry Moore and Tate
Collection based display
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
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
Pink and Green Sleepers
support: 381 × 559 mm
frame: 656 × 818x 35 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p>
One critic, writing in 1943, described <br/>
the Shelter <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> in terms of natural phenomena. He compared the strange colours, scratchy lines and pitted surfaces to 'lichen of grey rock, the coloured texture of weather-worn stone, the fiery black and red of igneous formations of burning coal'.</p>
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Such associations between Moore's shelterers and nature supported a general propaganda message that within the British people lived an indomitable, <br/>
almost elemental force which would prevail whatever the threat.</p>
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2004-09-08T00:00:00
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N05713</b> PINK AND GREEN SLEEPERS 1941</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Moore 41’ b.r.
<br/>Pen, wash and gouache, 15×22 (38×55·5).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery and Glasgow, 1945; British Council, <i>Quelques Contemporains Anglais</i>, Paris, 1945, and <i>Nine Artists</i>, Prague, 1946 (23); Arts Council, Tate Gallery, 1951 (143, repr. in colour, pl.7).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Neumann, 1959, pp.55–6 and 60–5, repr. pl.39.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Grigson, 1943, pl.29 (in colour); Sweeney, 1946, p.67 (in colour); Read and Sylvester, I, 1957, p.234.</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>. A less finished version, 15×22 in., belongs to Dr Henry M. Roland (repr. Grohmann, 1960, pl.106), and a third even less finished version, 15 1/4×21 1/2 in., signed and dated 1941, was exhibited at the Tate Gallery, 1951 (142), and at Roland, Browse and Delbanco, May–June 1955 (25, repr.). The Shelter Sketch-Books contain a sketch for 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> as a whole and a detailed study of the left-hand head, as well as a number of 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> (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
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: processes and functions adults air raid blanket Blitz Blitz, London, 1940-42 figure furnishings history interiors military: World War II objects people public and municipal sleeping underground station