Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City – Collections – Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue". catalogue.henry-moore.org . Retrieved 30 July 2023. The sheep came up close to the window and so Henry Moore started sketching them. Initially, he only viewed them as balls of wool but as he started to pay more attention to their way of life, the way they moved, the shape of their bodies beneath the fleece, he got more understanding of them. They had strong human/biblical associations – the sight of an ewe with a lamb evoked strong mother and child themes (large form sheltering small form) which has been important to Henry Moore throughout his artwork. Henry Moore sundial stolen from former garden". The Independent. 13 July 2012 . Retrieved 7 January 2023. After the war, Moore received an ex-serviceman's grant to continue his education and in 1919 he became a student at the Leeds School of Art (now Leeds Arts University), which set up a sculpture studio especially for him. At the college, he met Barbara Hepworth, a fellow student who would also become a well-known British sculptor, and began a friendship and gentle professional rivalry that lasted for many years. In Leeds, Moore also had access to the modernist works in the collection of Sir Michael Sadler, the university Vice-Chancellor, which had a pronounced effect on his development. [10] In 1921, Moore won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London, along with Hepworth and other Yorkshire contemporaries. [11] While in London, Moore extended his knowledge of primitive art and sculpture, studying the ethnographic collections at the British Museum. [12]

Not that everything can be planned for. As Lilley and I drive out of the wood towards a far-flung corner of the park, we pass a throng of 11-year-olds, here on a school trip, moving at speed towards some Damien Hirsts. Lilley waves to them gaily, but Moris is more upfront about the dangers. YSP stations invigilators at high-risk points, but plenty of the sculptures are unattended.London, Marlborough Fine Arts, Art in Britain 1930-1940 centred around Axis Circle Unit One, March-April 1965, no 83 (illustrated in the catalogue) Moore died on 31 August 1986 at his home in Perry Green. His body was interred at the churchyard of St Thomas's Church. [51] The Art Gallery of Ontario's Henry Moore collection is the largest public collection of his works in the world

Allemand-Cosneau, Claude; Fath, Manfred; Mitchinson, David (1996). Henry Moore. Nantes: Musée des Beaux Arts. p.63. ISBN 3-7913-1662-1.Earlier figures are pierced in a conventional manner, in which bent limbs separate from and rejoin the body. The later, more abstract figures are often penetrated by spaces directly through the body, by which means Moore explores and alternates concave and convex shapes. These more extreme piercings developed in parallel with Barbara Hepworth's sculptures. [52] Hepworth first pierced a torso after misreading a review of one of Henry Moore's early shows. [ citation needed] The plaster Reclining Figure: Festival (1951) in the Tate, is characteristic of Moore's later sculptures: an abstract female figure intercut with voids. As with much of the post-War work, there are several bronze casts of this sculpture. [ citation needed] When Moore's niece asked why his sculptures had such simple titles, he replied, Today, the Henry Moore Foundation manages the artist's former home at Perry Green in Hertfordshire as a visitor destination, with 70 acres (28ha) of sculpture grounds as well as his restored house and studios. It also runs the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds which organises exhibitions and research activities in international sculpture. Popular interest in Moore's work was perceived by some to have declined for a while in the UK but has been revived in recent times by exhibitions including at Kew Gardens in 2007, Tate Britain in 2010, and Hatfield House in 2011. The foundation he endowed continues to play an essential role in promoting contemporary art in the United Kingdom and abroad through its grants and exhibitions programme. [73] Collections [ edit ] Three Way Piece No. 2 (The Archer), (1964–65) has been on display in front of Toronto City Hall in Nathan Phillips Square since 1966. England [ edit ] Henry Moore Bibliography: 1986–1991, together with supplementary 1898–1986 publications. Henry Moore Foundation. 1992. ISBN 978-0-906909-11-9. Moore received an ex-grant serviceman in 1919, following a brief spell of teaching and serving in the Civil Service Rifles unit during World War I, and attended Leeds School of Art, establishing himself as the academy’s first sculpting student. Barbara Hepworth met him there and had a big impact on him. During his stay, he spent a lot of time in the British Museum researching its ethnographic collection, which influenced his later monumental representational pieces. a b Foss, Brian (2007). War paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939–1945. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3.