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Henry Moore

(British, 1898–1986)

Henry Moore

Reclining Figure, 1936

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Henry Moore

Seated Woman, 1959

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Henry Moore

Sheep Drawing, 1972

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Henry Moore

Ideas for Upright Internal/External Forms, 1939

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Henry Moore

Ideas for Sculpture: Reclining Figures, 1934–1954

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Henry Moore

Time/Life Screen: Maquette No. 4, 1952

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Henry Moore

Mother and Child, 1956

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Henry Moore

Maquette for Seated Torso, 1954

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Biography

Timeline

1898: Born: Castleford Yorkshire, England
1919: Enrolled at Leeds School of Art
1921 - 1924: Royal College of Art in London
1924: Won travelling scholarship and went to Italy for six months
1925 - 1932: Taught sculpture at the Royal College of Art
1928 - 1929: Received commission for first public sculpture: a figure on St James’s Park underground station in London
1932 - 1939: Taught sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art
1936: Participated in the International Surrealist exhibition in London
1941 - 1956: Trustee of the Tate Gallery
1955: Made a Companion of Honour
1956: Trustee of the National Gallery
1957: Commission for the UNESCO building in Paris
1962: Commission forKnife Edge Two Pieces, for College Green, opposite the Houses of Parliament in London
1963: Received the Order of Merit
1967: Commission for Nuclear Energy for the University of Chicago
1986: Died: Much Hadham, Herfordshire, England

Exhibitions

2013: European Masters - Tasende Gallery - West Hollywood, West Hollywood, CA
Beyond Brancusi - Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
NeuenGalerie - neu gesehen: Sammlung + documenta-Erwerbungen - Neue Galerie, Kassel
Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers - Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
British and French Modernism - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
2012: Henry Moore - Late Large Forms - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
Open Depot - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Henry Moore - Late Large Forms - Gagosian Gallery, London (England)
2011: Henry Moore - Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (England)
2010: 55 JAHRE GALERIE KOCH – Meisterwerke der Bildhauerei - Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany
Le Rêve - Der Traum - Motiv und Metapher - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochu, Germany
2009: Henry Moore and the Challenge of Architecture, Didrichsen Museum, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
Mother and Child: Henry Moore’s West Dean Tapestries, Figge Art Musuem, Davenport, Iowa
Moore in Ameirca, New York Botanical Garden, NY (solo)
Henry Moore Textiles, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
2008: Henry Moore imaginary landscapes, Haus am Wladsee, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Moore and Mythology, Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France (solo)
Henry Moore: Master Printmaker - A Major Tour of Russia, 12 venues in Russia (solo)
2007: Moore at Kew, Royal Botantic Gardenks, UK (solo)
Good Form: The Goldschmidt Collection of (small scale) Sculpture, Scottsdale museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
Henry Moore: Natural Form, Tate Liverpool, Liverpoo, UK (solo)
Henry Moore: War and Utility, Imperial War Museum, London, UK (solo)
Henry Moore and the Challenge of Architecture, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Power and Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific, British Museum, London, Uk (solo)
2006: Henry Moore (retrospective), CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Classics, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere
2005: Dimensions, Winston Wachter Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY
Henry Moore: A Retrospective, Sao Paulo, Rio, Brasilia, Brasil (solo)
Henry Moore - Marlborough London, UK (solo)
2004: Cubism and its Legacy - The Gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (group)
2001 - 2002: Henry Moore, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2000 - 2001: Moore in China, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghia, China
2000: Works on Paper - Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
1999: Petits Formats - Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY
Sculpture from the New Europe: public sculpture for the 2 Germanies 1945-68 - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
1998: Giacometti to Judd: Prints by Sculptors - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1993: Modern Masters and the Figure: Picasso to de Kooning - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992: The Non-Objective World - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
1985: The Treasure Houses of Britain: 500 Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1978: Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art I. Picasso and Cubism II. European Painting and Sculpture III. Henri Matisse: Cut-Outs - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1956: Monumentality in Modern Sculpture - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1942: First Papers of Surrealism - - Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, New York City, NY
1938: Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme..., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1936: International Surrealist Exhibition... New Burlington Galleries, London, IK
1932: Neue Englische Kunst - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Public Collections

: Tate Modern, London, UK
Tate Britain, London, UK
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid, Spain
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Museo Botero, Bogota , Colombia

Literature

2007: Lewison, Jeremy, Henry Moore. Köln ; London : Taschen, 2007
1993: Fuller, Peter, Henry Moore. London : Methuen, 1993
1992: Mitchinson, David and Julian Stallabrass, Henry Moore. New York : Rizzoli, 1992
1988: Compton, Susan P., Henry Moore. London : Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988
1943: Grigson, Geoffrey, Henry Moore. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng. Penguin books, 1943

Henry Moore

(British, 1898–1986)

Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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