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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       
1940
 
    
After his London studio is bombed, Henry Moore moves to Much Hadham, where he works and lives for the rest of his life       
1944
 
   
Commissioned by a church in Northampton to sculpt a Madonna and Child, British sculptor Henry Moore produces the first of his family groups      
1945
 
     
English painter Francis Bacon creates a sensation with his Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion        
1946
 
    
Sadler's Wells Ballet moves to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (and is known from 1956 as the Royal Ballet)