Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
The Art and Architecture of English Gardens.
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179-197 The Modern Movement garden 1925-1939. (Includes a photograph of the garden for Bentley Wood, designed by Christopher Tunnard with the empty plinth for Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone. Two paragraphs describe the £300 commission, for which Moore received a deposit of £50 which he was asked to return and take back the figure when the Chermayeffs left for America (The work was installed in September 1938). The carving was lent for the 1939 New York World's Fair, spent the war in America, and came to the Tate Gallery in 1945).
293-309 Towards the Twenty-First Century: Geoffrey Jellicoe's Moody Gardens. (Mentions the Jellicoe knew Moore, and that a lake at Sutton Place should have held or been presided over by a Moore sculpture)
Bib. Number0015905
The Art and Architecture of English Gardens.
Author/EditorBROWN Jane.
PublisherWeidenfeld and Nicolson
Place PublishedLondon
Year1989
Date & Collation320pp.Illus.Bibliog.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationDesigns for the garden from the collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1609 to the Present Day.179-197 The Modern Movement garden 1925-1939. (Includes a photograph of the garden for Bentley Wood, designed by Christopher Tunnard with the empty plinth for Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone. Two paragraphs describe the £300 commission, for which Moore received a deposit of £50 which he was asked to return and take back the figure when the Chermayeffs left for America (The work was installed in September 1938). The carving was lent for the 1939 New York World's Fair, spent the war in America, and came to the Tate Gallery in 1945).
293-309 Towards the Twenty-First Century: Geoffrey Jellicoe's Moody Gardens. (Mentions the Jellicoe knew Moore, and that a lake at Sutton Place should have held or been presided over by a Moore sculpture)