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Henry Moore

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Moore, Henry 

Born July 30, 1898, in Castleford, Yorkshire. English sculptor.

Moore studied at the Leeds School of Art from 1919 to 1921 and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1921 to 1925. He taught at the Royal College until 1933. Later he taught at art schools in Chelsea and Slide. Moore was influenced by primitive art (primarily Mexican sculpture) and pre-Renaissance sculpture.

In the 1920’s, Moore began to work out a few favorite motifs (as seen in such works as Mother and Child and Reclining Figure). He produces works that are fairly representational (Family Group, bronze, 1945–49) and works that are abstract or somewhat fantastic. Moore’s sculptures are strongly modeled monumental forms. They are characterized by the interaction of forms, complex and architectonically tense composition, rhythmic outlines, and an organic relationship with the environment. The artist’s sculptures include Reclining Figure (marble, 1957–58, UNESCO Building, Paris) and Reclining Mother and Child (bronze, 1961, Art Center, Minneapolis). Moore is also a talented draftsman. In the early 1940’s he did a cycle of drawings devoted to life in wartime London.

WORKS

Heads, Figures and Ideas. London-New York, 1958.

REFERENCES

Valerius, S. Progressivnaia skul’ptura XX veka. Moscow, 1973. Pages 268–74.
Read, H. H. Moore, vols. 1–2. London, 1955–57.


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A bronze Henry Moore sculpture valued at pounds 3 million went missing in 2005 and now detectives say they are almost sure that after it was stolen it was sold for scrap for pounds 1,500.
Sculptured and shaped with not a single flaw An artistically configured formation by Sir Henry Moore.
Looking back to a time when English culture had just about had its fill of perilous adventure, the exhibition effectively restages a 1940s and 1950s trend for homely art and design, with small-scale sculptures by the likes of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth set neatly aside the furniture of Robin Day and Gordon Russell.
 
 
 
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