The National Gallery in Wartime (PB)

Author Suzanne Bosman is Senior Picture Researcher at the National Gallery Company. On August 23, 1939, with World War II looming, the National Gallery, London, was forced temporarily to close its doors to the public to evacuate the bulk of its collection to secret countryside locations for safe-keeping. By May 1940, the collection had been transferred to Manod Quarry, a slate mine in the