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 319, Strand on the Green, Chiswick by Eve Kirke. Landscape painting of the River Thames, running through the Strand on the Green at Chiswick with the bridge in the background.]()
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![Shell poster number 537, May to October - Summer Shell (1939) by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Painting of a summer boater style hat lying in grass with yellow butterfly.]()
Summer Shell May to October
- 1939
- Edward McKnight Kauffer
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![Shell poster number 443, Summer Shell is here again by Jack Miller. Cartoon style painting depicting two mermaids on a beach emerging from conch shells and combing their hair. Around them, a lobster plays a fiddle and a crab like creature plays a harp. Four fish appear to be dancing in the background. A galleon style ship sails on the sea near to a cliff.]()
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![Shell poster number 358, Summer Shell on sale again by artist unknown. Features black and yellow text reading 'Summer Shell on sale again' on a cream background with stylised roses at the top and bottom.]()
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![Shell poster number 502, Temple Bar by Edward Scroggie, landscape painting of Sir Christopher Wren's Temple Bar, when it was based at the Hertfordshire estate of Theobalds Park as the entranceway, it has since been rebuilt in Central London.]()
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![Shell poster number 297, That's Shell That Was (road and car) by Rowland Hilder. Painting of a car disappearing into the distance, a wind battered tree is at the forefront of the image.]()
That’s Shell – That Was!
- 1931
- Rowland Hilder
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![Shell poster number 239, Tail off a monkey by James Holland. Cartoon of a monkey holding his detached tail. Caption reads; "The cold may freeze the tail off a monkey but winter Shell is here".]()
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![Shell poster number 313, The Giant, Cerne Abbas. A painting of the Cerne Abbas Giant, a naked chalk figure etched into the landscape. . A strategically placed cloud shadow protects his modesty!]()
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![Shell poster number 352, The Great Globe, Swanage by Graham Sutherland. Painting showing the stone sphere at Swanage with brightly coloured trees in the background.]()
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