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| Eric Ravilious Submarine controls 1941 lithograph British Museum |
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| Eric Ravilious Submarines 1941 lithograph British Museum |
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| Eric Ravilious Submarine Commander 1941 lithograph British Museum |
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| Eric Ravilious Submarine ward room 1941 lithograph British Museum |
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| Eric Ravilious Midnight Sun from a Destroyer in the North Sea 1940 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| Eric Ravilious Submarines in Dry Dock 1940 drawing Tate Gallery |
In 1940-41 at the beginning of World War II the artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) and the artist Henry Moore (1898-1986) were both occupied full-time making public pictures. Both were official War Artists, paid by the British government to record the conflict as best they could. The Ravilious drawings and lithographs are upbeat and buoyant, in keeping with his sunny temperament. Moore's work is noble, dignified, gloomy. He was in London during the bombing raids, and his subjects were those taking shelter in underground tunnels. Events supplied a heavy and inartistic irony when cheerful young Ravilious was killed in the course of duty, while grim-minded Moore survived to become a powerful international celebrity.
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| Henry Moore from Shelter Sketchbook 1940-41 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Moore from Shelter Sketchbook 1940-41 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Moore from Shelter Sketchbook 1940-41 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Moore from Shelter Sketchbook 1940-41 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Moore from Shelter Sketchbook 1940-41 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Moore from Shelter Sketchbook 1940-41 drawing British Museum |