Tourists Prefer Shell

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.

Key facts

  • Catalogue Number

    448

  • Title

    Tourists Prefer Shell

  • Date

    1936

  • Artist

    Tristram Hillier

Tristram Hillier (1905-1983) was born in Peking and studied at the Slade and then in Paris, where he met and was influenced by the Surrealist painters. He became a member of the Unit One group in 1934. He travelled widely and gradually his work became more realistic and traditional, for which he was criticised.

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