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Description: | Born in Islington, Rupert Shephard studied at London's Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks and Wilson Steer. During the Second World War, he was an industrial draughtsman and later an official War Artist.
Shephard spent 15 years in South Africa as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Capetown. He returned to London in 1963 where he remained for the rest of his life.
Shephard created this woodblock print ten years after his return from Africa. He shows a traditional London icon, a policeman or 'bobby', who directs traffic in the centre of a crowded London road. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Ben Shephard | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | 1975 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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