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 513, Journalists Use Shell by Zero-Hans Schleger. Painting of a stylised disembodied head on a newspaper with a pencil next to it.]()
Journalists Use Shell
- 1938
- Hans Schleger (ZERO)
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![Shell poster number 509, Lifeboatmen use Shell by Edward Ardizzone. Painting of seven lifeboatmen at sea.]()
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![Shell poster number 430, Motorists Prefer Shell, by J.S. Anderson. Painting/drawing of various car components, including pistons.]()
Motorists Prefer Shell
- 1935
- John Stewart Anderson
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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 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 448, Tourists Prefer Shell by Tristram Hillier. Painting of a beach scene, the sea is in the background with a galleon type ship sailing by. A white cliff with a lighthouse is in the background. There are brightly coloured and patterned beach huts on the shoreline. There is a table at the forefront of the picture showing various tourist paraphernalia, including a map.]()
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