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 483, New Shell lubricating oils by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Painting shows an oil can decorated with a red figure holding a shell above it's head.]()
New Shell Lubricating Oils
- 1937
- Edward McKnight Kauffer
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![Shell poster number 137, Now the Sealed Oil Cabinet, Shell Studio (1926). Painting of a Shell Sealed Cabinet and oversized key, text reads; "Now the Sealed oil cabinet - and no can to pay for!"]()
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![Shell poster number 140, Sealed Cabinet by Howard K. Elcock (1926). Painting of a man proudly showing one of Shell's sealed cabinets to a female motorist. Caption reads; "Now sealed cabinets, no tin to pay for".]()
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![Shell poster number 141, Oarsmen by Munney (1926). Painting of two rowers, caption reads; "The Perfect Power Pair".]()
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![Shell poster number 1532, Pool Today but Shell Tomorrow (1952) by Barnett Freedman. Poster to celebrate the end of rationing using oranges and yellows, with an illustration of the top of a Shell Petrol pump.]()
Pool Today but Shell Tomorrow
- 1952
- Barnett Freedman
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![Shell poster number 117, Pump Attendant and Car (How to buy oil) by Tom Purvis (1925). Painting of a man with an oil can next to a Shell sealed cabinet, a female motorists seated in her car smiles at him.]()
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![Shell poster number 144, Quality Tells - flat racing by George Denholm Armour (1926). Painting of a horse and jockey crossing a finish line while the crowd looks on. Caption reads; "Quality Tells".]()
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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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