In January 1928 Eric Gill was commissioned by Charles Holden to carve three reliefs for the exterior of the new London Underground Headquarters at 55 Broadway, SW1. Gill led a team of five sculptors, Eric Aumonier, A.H. Gerrard, Henry Moore, Samuel Rabinovitch and Allan Wyonn who were each commissioned to carve a figure, making a group of eight winds. Gill was responsible for one each of the North, East and South winds. The South and West winds were depicted as female figures and the North and East winds as male figures.

The full size figures were carved on site at Broadway and the models of the three winds were produced later in October 1929 for exhibition at the Goupil Gallery. The models for the East Wind and the North Wind are the in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London. The model for the East Wind was purchased direct from the Goupil Gallery by the Tate Gallery in 1929 and the model for the North Wind was gifted to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Mrs. Frank Pick in 1942 and subsequently transferred to the Tate Gallery (see J. Collins, loc. cit.)