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Women and Children with Bundles

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Women and Children with Bundles
Women and Children with Bundles
Women and Children with Bundles

Women and Children with Bundles

Sketchbook
  • Page 6 from Second Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1631
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.74
Papercream lightweight
Dimensionsframe: 530 × 430 × 33 mm
Inscription

pencil u.c. Women & children with bundles; pen and ink u.r. List of subjects for/shelter drawings/1 View from inside shelter at/night time, with moonlight & flare/light on bombed buildings/(2) Two half figures in closed-in space/with opening showing burning/building outside/3. Single figure against shell splintered/wall/4. Head in a shelter – head in a box/closed in/5 Figures wrapped in blankets/6 Figure in a bombed street/Tilbury Shelter/Figures showing faces lit up – rest/of bodies in silhouette/Figures lying against platform with great bales of paper above also making/beds/Perambulators with bundles/(Dismal crossed through) Dramatic, dismal lit, masses of reclining figures fading to perspective/point – Scribbles and scratches, chaotic foreground. Chains hanging from/old crane/Sick woman in bathchair. Bearded Jews blanketed sleeping in deck/chairs/Lascars tunnel (bundles of old clothes that are people)/Bunks with women feeding children/Dark wet settings (entrance to Tilbury)/Men with shawls to keep off draughts, women wearing handkerchiefs on heads/Muck & rubbish & chaotic untidiness around

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore 1977
More Information

Second Shelter Sketchbook p.6. The Tilbury warehouse, see HMF 1592, referred to in the inscription was used for storing 'great bales of paper'; the 'platform' was presumably for keeping them dry above ground level.

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