Shelter Scene

Prints and Drawings

1941

Henry Spencer Moore
English, 1898-1986

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henry Moore
Title: Shelter Scene
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1941
Medium: Colored crayons, with pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 17.5 × 25.4 cm (6 15/16 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Joel Starrels
Reference Number: 1961.1192R
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London

Anne Garrould, Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49 3 (London, 2001), no. AG 41.10/HMF 1766 (ill.).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Henry Moore: Sixty Years of His Art,” 1983, p. 126.

Given by Mr. Joel Starrels, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1961.

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