Explore the Shell Heritage Art Collection
The Shell Heritage Art Collection is one of the most important collections of 20th Century British commercial art. Featuring the work of well-known modern British artists, some selected posters from the Collection can viewed here.
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![Shell poster number 73, Bank on Shell Racing Car by Norman Keene. Painting of a man driving a red racing car, text reads; "Bank on Super Shell Motor Lubricating Oil - A sound investment".]()
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![Shell poster number 129, 60,000 miles without decarbonising, Shell Studio (1926). Painting of a 1920s aeroplane. Text reads; "60,000 miles without decarbonising on Shell Motor Oil & Petrol (Imperial Airways Record).]()
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![Shell poster number 479, A strange church, Ayot St Lawrence, Herts by Tom Gentleman. Landscape painting of the church at Ayot St Lawrence in Herts.]()
A Strange Church, Ayot St. Lawrence Herts
- 1937
- Tom Gentleman
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![Shell poster number 434, Actors Prefer Shell by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Stylised painting of a rectangle mask with an abstract eye and mouth.]()
Actors Prefer Shell
- 1935
- Edward McKnight Kauffer
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![Shell poster number 264, Airmen prefer Shell by Andrew Johnson. Painting of a pilot in close up, sitting in the cockpit of a Gypsy Moth plane.]()
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![Shell poster number 295, Alfriston by Vanessa Bell in Pointillism style. Landscape scene with church in background.]()
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![Shell poster number 392, Architects Prefer Shell by Hans Feibusch. Painting depicting various architect's equipment, including a compass, ruler and protractor.]()
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![Shell poster number 1552, Arlington Row, Bibury (1952) by Mary Kessell. Painting of Arlington Row cottages in the Cotswold village of Bibury.]()
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