Catalogue Number
NMLH.2025.16.2
Object Name
poster
Title
'I saw this from a window when I was a boy - its always seemed to me to have an heroic quality - anyway! happy new year. Ken 71'
Place
London
People
Ken Sprague
Description
A white poster featuring a pen sketch of a view of two sets of train tracks diverging around a green space in the middle which looks like an allotment with a person tending a vegetable patch, and another sat on a deck chair near a shed. There is a handwritten caption at the bottom: 'I saw this from a window when I was a boy - its always seemed to me to have an heroic quality - anyway! happy new year. Ken 71'
Ken Sprague was a key figure in British left-wing art in the 20th century. He created explicitly political designs for trade unions, Martin Luther King Jr, the Communist Party, the Labour Party, the Daily Worker newspaper and the 1984-85 Miners' Strike. His most famous works are for the peace movement - Sprague was resolutely anti-war, and designed a substantial catalogue of work communicating anti-war, and anti-nuclear messages.
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