Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
War Scenes
War Scenes
unsigned, undated
pencil u.c. Sectional line drawings; u.l. Night scene; pen and ink Abstract expression/&; pencil abstracts & figures/disintegration of bombers/plan (illegible) ones form/KC (monogram) notebook/collective combination/Drawing with background/of abstractish (sic) heads/collective E.G. one/into St Pauls in/background/Group in front of devastated homes/Seated figures/& figures wrapped in blankets; pen and ink u.c. War possible subjects; pencil blanketed figure in bombed street; pen and ink Night bombing/flashes from ground/searchlights/Gun shells bursting like stars; Whole effect of Blitzkrieg/devastated houses/bomb crater/Balloon barrage; Contrast of peaceful normal/with sudden devastation/ (word crossed through) Irrational/contrast of opposites/disintegration of bomb/or bomber/or person/& machine; c.r. Night & day/Nightmare/fine - at night/Burning houses/Burning cows/Bombs bursting at sea/Haystack & aeroplane/barbed wire/Spotters on buildings; c.l. pencil Figure pinned under debris/& single large figure/or half figure/against splintered/wall/Two lying down figures/in shelter; l.r. Sectional line/drawings/Two figure shelter/drawings/series of sheltering figures/Two blanketed figures
Many of the ideas recorded in the notes on this page are reproduced as a series of small drawings in Eighteen Ideas for War Drawings 1940 (HMF 1553), which Moore made in response to the blitz in 1940.