Graphite, ink, watercolour and crayon on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-moore-om-ch-1659" aria-label="More by Henry Moore OM, CH" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Moore OM, CH</a>
Shelterers in Tube
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
actions: expressive
actions: processes and functions
adults
air raid
architecture
crowd
figure
groups
history
interiors
military: World War II
people
public and municipal
public and municipal
sheltering
sleeping
underground station
underground station
paper unique graphite ink watercolour crayon
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
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 April 2006 – 16 April 2007
2007-04-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-01
Blake 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
Shelterers in the Tube
support: 380 × 568 mm
frame: 650 × 817 × 35 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05712</b> SHELTERERS IN THE TUBE 1941</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Moore 41’ b.r.
<br/>Pen, chalk, watercolour and gouache, 15×22 (38×56).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, Australia and New Zealand, 1941.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Read, 1944, pl.186; V. &amp; A., <i>Twentieth Century British Water-Colours</i>, 1958, pl.32.</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>. Based on 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> in the Shelter Sketch-Books (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: expressive actions: processes and functions adults air raid architecture crowd figure groups history interiors military: World War II people public and municipal public and municipal sheltering sleeping underground station underground station