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 539, Racing Motorists (1939) by Richard Guyatt. Painting of a racing driver (head and shoulders) smoking a cigarette, with crowd in background.]()
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![Shell poster number 292, Salcombe by Hal Woolf. Landscape painting depciting Salcombe, with the beach and hills in the background and houses and part of the church at the front of the image.]()
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![Shell poster number 446, Scientists Prefer Shell by Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers. Stylised painting of a scientist's beaker and test tube on a wooden table.]()
Scientists Prefer Shell
- 1936
- Eric Lombers / Tom Eckersley
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![Shell poster number 473, Sham Ruins, Virginia Water by R.J. Kinneir. Landscape painting of Sham Ruins in snow.]()
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![Shell poster number 540, Shell oil stays on the job (1939) by Abram Games. Painting shows red figure riding a bucking horse.]()
Shell Lubricating Oil; Stays on the job
- 1939
- Abram Games
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![Shell poster number 248, Shell for anti-knock by John Yunge Bateman. Painting shows a yellow classic car travelling at speed. Knocking is an unwanted problem that can occur during combustion, caused by the petrol-air mixture exploding and causing a knocking noise.]()
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![Shell poster number 349, Shell-Mex House by Sir Henry Rushbury. Landscape painting depicting the Shell Mex building in the 1930s, when it was newly built.]()
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![Shell poster number 277, Skiers by Sydney Walton. Cartoon of two men skiing down a slope, accompanying text reads "The Quick-starting Pair Shell Oil and Winter Shell Petrol".]()
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![Shell poster number 330, St Ives, Huntingdon by Duncan Grant. Painting of a bridge at St Ives in a cartoon like style, visible through the bridge are buildings and boats.]()
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