Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
A Castleford sculptor.
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Bib. Number0009430
A Castleford sculptor.
PublisherYorkshire Post
Place PublishedLeeds
Year1929
Date & Collation(1 Feb)..
LanguageEnglish
More InformationShort report on a recumbent female figure of the north-west wind" to adorn the new Underground headquarters. Although his first work "for a permanent public building in London he was represented at the Wembley Exhibition by some keystone heads over the cotton exhibit in the Palace of Industry" (See 0010803. In 1982 Henry Moore told the Editor of this Bibliography that he had carried out an even earlier sculpture commission while still a student at Leeds School of Art). The article also mentions the carvings for a private garden in Chelsea (See 0006258). "He is essentially a modernist and no photographer in stone." The Yorkshire Evening Post of 1 February 1929 carried a photograph of the Underground carvings with the caption "A Yorkshire artist's North Wind"."