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Bunks and Sleepers

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Bunks and Sleepers
Bunks and Sleepers
Bunks and Sleepers

Bunks and Sleepers

Sketchbook
  • Page 71 from Second Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1696
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.139
Papercream lightweight
Dimensionspaper: 204 x 165 mm
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore 1977
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Second Shelter Sketchbook p.71. Moore later described how he lost interest in drawing the shelterers when 'the government began to organize things better. They put lavatories and coffee bars down there and began building four-tiered bunks for the children' (James 1992). In this drawing, the adults appear to have appropriated the bunks.

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