Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Plane Crash in Sussex: Summer 1940
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Plane Crash in Sussex: Summer 1940
Date1940
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1552a
Date Order NumberAG 40.65
Dimensionspaper: 191 x 276 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.r. Moore/40
OwnershipImperial War Museum, London
More InformationThe aircraft, a Heinkel 111, was shot down at High Salvington, near Worthing in Sussex, on 16 August 1940 during the second phase of the Battle of Britain. Moore may have made this and the following drawing as a result of a visit to his former art teacher Alice Gostick, who had a house in High Salvington, or from a photograph in the Worthing Gazette. As already noted, some war drawings dated 1940 predate the Shelter Sketchbooks.
Exhibitions
Published ReferencesPO 1988.02
10 November 1988 to 12 February 1989