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 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 167, Carbon Defeated! Footballers (1928), no artist given. Painting shows footballer, wearing a shirt displaying the word oil, scoring a goal against sprite looking figures representing carbon. His team mate wearing a "petrol" shirt is cheering in the background. This campaign promoted the benefit of using Shell oil and petrol together to reduce carbon in engines.]()
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![Shell poster number 40, Carried Unanimously (1923) by Shell Studio. Poster shows speeding cars carrying cans of Shell petrol.]()
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![Shell poster number 1555, Catalytic Cracking Plant, Stanlow, Cheshire (1952) by Terence Cuneo. Detailed painting of the catalytic cracking plant in Cheshire, with cooling tower in the background.]()
Catalytic Cracking Plant, Stanlow, Cheshire
- 1952
- Terence Cuneo
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![Shell poster number 28a, Certified Correct Measure (1922) by Shell Studio. Text reads: "Certified Correct Measure. Passed by Inspectors of Weights and Measures. Visible Filling. Shell Pumps." Illustration of a garage worker holding a petrol pump hose.]()
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![Shell poster number 221, Chamois by G.S. Brien. Painting of two leaping gazelles, caption reads; "The quick-starting pair".]()
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![Shell poster number 1565, Change your oil for summer by John Castle. Keen to reintroduce the Shell name back into Britain after the war, Shell devised and launched their new lubricant, X-100 in 1949. Marketed as a new superior lubricant, nothing like X-100 had been seen before. Poster shows stylised flowers with coloured cogs as flower heads.]()
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