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0008817
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts
Place Published: London
Year: 1945
Date & Collation: (13 Oct-25 Nov).54pp.Preface.
Description: Over 1000 works, a larger selection of works purchased by the War Artists' Advisory Committee than had previously been possible, the majority of them having been circulating in the provinces, the Empire and the United States. It was anticipated that the National Maritime Museum, the Imperial War Museum and the Tate Gallery would receive many of the over 5000 works. 17 Shelter and Coal Mine Drawings by Henry Moore are listed.
0008858
Author/Editor: ROTHENSTEIN John.
Publisher: Country Life
Place Published: London
Year: 1945
Date & Collation: (2 Nov) 776-777(1 Moore illus).
Description: Exhibition review (See 0008817), with a reproduction of Four Grey Sleepers, 1941 drawing, and a passing mention of Moore's drawings: part of the visual vernacular...of London.""
0008844
Publisher: The Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1945
Date & Collation: (13 Oct)..
Description: Review of over 1000 war pictures at the Royal Academy (See 0008817), selected from over 5000 commissioned or purchased by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Mentions the piercing vividness of Moore's shelter drawings". Similar reviews appeared in other British newspapers on this day."
0008848
Publisher: The Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1945
Date & Collation: (1 Nov)..
Description: Short letter signed by Moore, Kenneth Clark, Charles Holden, Eric Newton and Charles Wheeler deploring the display of a piece of religious sculpture by a distinguished contemporary artist" to the accompaniment of sensational slogans like "Four and half Tons of Thrills". The work was Epstein's Jacob and the Angel being exhibited in Oxford Street by a Blackpool showman with a loudspeaker inviting the public in with a money back guarantee if not satisfied."