22/09/2024 - Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall

During the Blitz, from September 1940 – May 1941, crowds of people sought refuge in London’s Underground stations to escape the nightly bombardments by the German Air Force. Moved by what he saw there and in other makeshift shelters, the sculptor Henry Moore (1898–1986) documented these scenes in hundreds of haunting sketches known as the Shelter Drawings.