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1933
 
    
Draughtsman Harry Beck, inspired by electrical circuits, produces a classic map of London's underground       
1934
 
   
British painter Francis Bacon has his first solo show in London      
Francis Bacon, by Ruskin Spear, 1984
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1936
 
    
Salvador Dali creates a stir by attending the opening of London's Surrealist exhibition in a diving suit       
1937
 
   
British artist Ben Nicholson does the first of his characteristic abstract white reliefs      
1937
 
     
William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore open a school of art with a distinctive style, known from its location as the Euston Road School        
1937
 
    
Stanley Spencer gives a stark depiction of himself and his wife in The Leg of Mutton Nude       
1938
 
    
Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry       
1939
 
     
Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson move their studios to St Ives        
1940
 
    
English potter Bernard Leach publishes an influential manual, A Potter's Book       
1940
 
    
Working as an official war artist, Henry Moore creates an iconic series of drawings of Londoners sleeping at night in underground stations