Re-forming Shell Cases

Made:: circa 1946

artist:: Norman Wilkinson

commissioner:: London Midland & Scottish Railway Company

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Painting, oil on canvas, poster artwork for the London Midland & Scottish Railway, Re-Forming Shell Cases by Norman Wilkinson, about 1946. Depicts women munitions workers in a railway workshop, reforming large, recycled brass shell cases using machinery and hammers. From The LMS at War series. Signed by the artist at bottom left. Unframed.

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Category:: Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Object Number:: 1977-5766

Materials:: oil paint and canvas

Measurements:: overall; image: 763 mm x 1142 mm

type:: painting, oil painting and poster artwork

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Re-forming Shell Cases

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