Graphite, ink, wax and watercolour on paper
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Tube Shelter Perspective
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
actions: expressive
actions: processes and functions
adults
air raid
anxiety
architecture
Blitz
Blitz, London, 1940-42
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
figure
formal qualities
history
interiors
military: World War II
people
perspective
public and municipal
public and municipal
sheltering
sleeping
underground station
underground station
<p>This picture was exhibited at the National Gallery in 1941. It was described in the catalogue as 'a terrifying vista of recumbent shapes, pale as all underground life tends  to be pale; regimented, as only fear can regiment; helpless yet tense, safe yet listening, uncouth, uprooted, waiting  in the tunnel for the dawn to release them. This is not the descriptive journalism of art.  It is imaginative poetry of a high order.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2002</em></p>
paper unique graphite ink wax watercolour
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
5 April 2014 – 10 August 2014
2014-08-10
5 April 2014 – 10 August 2014
2014-08-10
2014-04-05
K21 Ständehaus (Düsseldorf, Germany)
2014-04-05
Beneath the Ground. From Kafka to Kippenberger
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
19 December 2022
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-12-19
Gallery 37
Collection based display
Tube Shelter Perspective
support: 483 × 438 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p>
This picture was exhibited at the National Gallery in 1941. It was described in the catalogue as 'a terrifying vista of recumbent shapes, pale as all underground life tends <br/>
to be pale; regimented, as only fear can regiment; helpless yet tense, safe yet listening, uncouth, uprooted, waiting <br/>
in the tunnel for the dawn to release them. This is not the descriptive journalism of art. <br/>
It is imaginative poetry of a high order.'</p>
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2002-09-16T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05709</b> TUBE SHELTER PERSPECTIVE 1941</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pen, chalk, watercolour and gouache, 19×17 1/4 (48×43·5).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery, 1941–2 and 1945; British Council, <i>Quelques Contemporains Anglais</i>, Paris, 1945, and <i>Nine Artists</i>, Prague, 1946 (24).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Neumann, 1959, pp.60–5, repr. pl.36.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Grigson, 1943, pl.25 (in colour); Read, 1944, pl.180; Sweeney, 1946, p.69; Read and Sylvester, I, 1957, p.229.</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 variant, 10×7 1/2 in., with fewer, different figures, belongs to Dr Henry M. Roland (repr. Grohmann, 1960, p.107). There is a sketch for each version in the Shelter Sketch-Books (repr. Editions Poetry London, 1944, that for the Roland version in colour).</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
2004-07-22T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: expressive actions: processes and functions adults air raid anxiety architecture Blitz Blitz, London, 1940-42 emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas figure formal qualities history interiors military: World War II people perspective public and municipal public and municipal sheltering sleeping underground station underground station