The British Museum: Storehouse of Civilizations

0023755 The British Museum: Storehouse of Civilizations James Hamilton Head of Zeus London History of the British Museum from its founding to the present. pp.152-155 discusses the importance of the museum to artists and art students, and uses Moore as an example. Quotes from two letters written by Moore when he was an art student, and from Moore's introduction to Henry Moore at the British Museum. Mentions Woman with Upraised Arms as being based on a sculpture of the Egyptian pharoah Amenhotep III in the collection of the museum.