The Shelter Drawings

Name: The Shelter Drawings
Start: 2026-04-01
End: 2026-10-25
Location: Henry Moore Studios & Gardens

1 April 2026 to 25 October 2026

Drawing & Works on Paper Henry Moore

Thirty of Henry Moore's wartime Shelter Drawings, showing Londoners sheltering in the Underground during the Blitz, alongside material from the Henry Moore Archive.

From Henry Moore Studios & Gardens

Created during the Second World War, Moore’s Shelter Drawings are among the most powerful and widely recognised works of his career. Commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee, this evocative body of work shows Londoners sheltering in the London Underground during the Blitz (1940-41). The drawings were among the first works that Moore made after he moved to Perry Green, Hertfordshire, from the capital. Developed over a relatively short but exceptionally intense period,...