His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure typically depicting mother and child or reclining figures.
Henry moore reclining mother and child.
4th edition edited by david sylvester with an introduction by herbert read.
The reclining figure and the mother and child.
This work combines several themes that preoccupied henry moore.
Object number lh 649.
Henry moore volume one.
Moore was born in yorkshire england in 1898.
The sculpture garden boasts a collection of works by british artists including henry moore s reclining mother and child.
Although several examples of this combination exist in moore s drawings he very rarely conflated them in sculpture preferring to treat them as separate subjects.
Moore s works are usually suggestive of the female body apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups.
Reclining mother and child and two mother and child studies.
Henry spencer moore 30 july 1898 31 august 1986 was an english artist.
His forms are generally.
Reclining mother and child.
Object number lh 480 cast 3.
Walker foundation 1963.
The sculpture combines two of his dominant themes.
Ownership the new orleans museum of art.
Ownership collection walker art center minneapolis.
Moore began exploring the reclining figure motif in a series of drawings he made in the late 1920s nearly sixty years before creating this sculpture.
P02671 reclining mother and child i 1979 p02671 p02673 three etchings each approx.
He is best known for his semi abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art as well as sculpture moore produced many drawings including a series depicting londoners sheltering from the blitz during the second world war along with other graphic works on paper.
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Sculpture and drawings 1921 1948.
Henry spencer moore om ch fba 30 july 1898 31 august 1986 was an english artist.
The tate gallery 1982 84.
Reclining mother and child was made in 1975 76 when moore was in his late seventies.
The reclining figure the relationship of mother and child and the landscape.
At his parents insistence he trained first as a school teacher but enrolled in art school after world war i.
Gift of the t.
8 7 8 11 1 8 225 283 printed by michael rand published by raymond spencer for the henry moore foundation in an edition of 50 h m 513 515 514 each inscribed moore b r.
132 1 228 6 35 5 cm.
Edition summary bronze edition of 7 1 cast 1975 76 primary.
Gift of the sydney and walda besthoff foundation 98 141.
Dimensions 213 cm 83 7 8 in published dimension medium bronze.
Date 1960 61 cast 1961.
Lh 70 cast 6.