Rupert Norman Shephard was an English painter, illustrator and art teacher.
Lorries Transporting Landing Craft, Royal Albert Docks, London (1945) (Art.IWM ART LD 5293)
The War Artists Advisory Committee, was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and headed by Sir Kenneth Clark. Its
Rupert Shephard
…to 1943, Shephard worked as an industrial draughtsman but continued to paint and submitted several paintings, on industrial production topics, to the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC. These included a series of five pictures, Women in Industry and a scene inside an aircraft repair workshop. In the spring of 1945, WAAC offered…
Factory workers going to work at the Mather & Platt, Manchester, in the snow, by L. S. Lowry, 1943
The Passage to the Control-room at South West Regional Headquarters, Bristol, (Art. IWM ART LD 170), by John Piper
Coggeshall Church, Essex, (Tate, 1940) by John Armstrong
A Brother and Sister Sheltering in the Underground, 1941, (Art.IWM ART LD 795), by Edmond Xavier Kapp