Women and children in the subway

Mediums: pencil, ink, wax, watercolour, paper.
Location: the Henry Moore Foundation (Perry Green, Hertfordshire, the United Kingdom).

During the war, Henry Moore created a series of pencil drawings that impressed viewers with their realism and tragedy. Returning home from the guests, the artist and his wife were forced to hide from the Nazi bombing in the subway, where a large number of London residents were hiding. A huge crowd of people, forced to spend hours crowding underground while the aggressors are destroying their hometown, made an indelible impression on the artist. In his drawings, he reflected not the suffering of specific people, but the pain of the whole nation, its silent anger towards the enemy, which drove people into burrows like animals.