Ann Garrould
Lund Humphries
Hardback
352
2001
Moore was appointed an Official War Artist in 1940 and his drawings of figures in the London Underground shelters during the Blitz brought his work before the general public for the first time. At the end of 1941 he visited Wheldale Colliery in Yorkshire where his father had been a miner thirty years earlier to record miners working at the coalface. After these commissions other drawings such as mother and child studies and family groups were made for sculpture projects while the birth of his daughter led to an outpouring of drawings of his wife Irina and of Mary. In addition to sculptural themes Moore experimented with textile designs and in response to literary commissions he illustrated Edward Sackville-West s The Rescue 1946 and Andr? Gide s Prom?th?e 1949.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
352
2001
Moore was appointed an Official War Artist in 1940 and his drawings of figures in the London Underground shelters during the Blitz brought his work before the general public for the first time. At the end of 1941 he visited Wheldale Colliery in Yorkshire where his father had been a miner thirty years earlier to record miners working at the coalface. After these commissions other drawings such as mother and child studies and family groups were made for sculpture projects while the birth of his daughter led to an outpouring of drawings of his wife Irina and of Mary. In addition to sculptural themes Moore experimented with textile designs and in response to literary commissions he illustrated Edward Sackville-West s The Rescue 1946 and Andr? Gide s Prom?th?e 1949.