Art on the Underground
Videos
Page
Art on the Underground, previously called Platform for Art, is Transport for London's (TfL) contemporary public art programme. It commissions permanent and temporary artworks for London Underground, as well as commissioning artists to create covers for the Tube map, one of the largest public art commissions in the UK.
Murals celebrating the various artworks commissioned on the disused platform at Gloucester Road station
“Diamonds and Circle” permanent works “in situ” by Daniel Buren at Tottenham Court Road station
Labyrinth by Mark Wallinger
Frank Pick
Videos
Page
Frank Pick Hon. RIBA was a British transport administrator. After qualifying as a solicitor in 1902, he worked at the North Eastern Railway, before moving to the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) in 1906. He was chief executive officer and vice-chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board from its creation in 1933 until 1940.
Frank Pick, 1939
One of the early red disc station "bulls-eyes" introduced by Frank Pick, still in place at Ealing Broadway
South Wimbledon station (1926), one of Charles Holden's new stations on the C&SLR extension to Morden
Sudbury Town station (1931), the first of Charles Holden's stations on the Piccadilly line