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 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 338, Atalanta Class airliner by Barnett Freedman. Painting of of a four engine airliner flying over fields and a coastline.]()
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![Shell Poster number 544, These people use Shell - Blondes and Brunettes (1939), by Charles Mozley. Painting of two women, one blonde, one dark in hats, standing by a window.]()
Blondes and Brunettes Use Shell
- 1939
- Charles Mozley
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![Shell poster number 417, Bungay by Harold Steggles. Painting of the town centre, showing the Buttercross and surrounding buildings.]()
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![Shell poster number 499, Chanter's Folly, Appledore by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Landscape painting of Chanter's Folly and dry dock, showing a church and boat in the distance.]()
Chanters Folly and Dry Rock, Appledore
- 1937
- Rosemary and Clifford Ellis
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