Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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0023510
Publisher: The Devon and Exeter Gazette
Place Published: Exeter
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: 1931 (15 April)
Description: Ridicule at Moore's exhibition of works at Leicester Galleries; "To me it is inexplicable how anyone can find real beauty in these crude mis-shapen images.... Comparison to troglodyte man". No illus.
0009356
Publisher: South Wales Echo and Evening Express
Place Published: Cardiff
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (15 April)..
Description: Brief text on crude mis-shapen images" at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009327) which also appeared in several other provincial newspapers of 15 April 1931."
0009362
Publisher: Church Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (17 April)..
Description: 27-line note on the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). Their beauty...is in their vivid dynamic assault upon the emotions.""
0009374
Publisher: Leeds Mercury
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (20 Aug)..
Description: Review of first exhibition arranged by the newly formed Yorkshire Group of Artists at the Cartwright Hall, Bradford (See 0009330). Henry Moore whose sculpture was recently the cause of great controversy is exhibiting four drawings which are certain to cause some disturbance to the conventional mind.""
0009349
Publisher: Daily Sketch
Place Published: Manchester
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of Girl with Clasped Hands, 1930 Cumberland alabaster: one of the many strange figures" at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009327)."
0009355
Publisher: Leeds Mercury
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (15 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Mother and Child, 1930 Ham Hill stone, and reported comment from Douglas S. Andrews, Principal of Leeds College of Art. The feature follows a photograph in the 14 April 1931 issue of Reclining Figure, 1929 brown Hornton stone under the caption 'Is this beautiful?'. Correspondence for and against Moore appears in the Leeds Mercury for 17, 18 and 22 April 1931.
0009372
Publisher: Age
Place Published: Melbourne
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (23 May)..
Description: Review of the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327): a sculptor has arisen who out-Epsteins Epstein in the variety of contortions abrasions and contusions which are inflicted upon the human form...although Mr Moore's conceptions can please very few eyes at present they might well make good lockup investments.""
0009359
Publisher: Glasgow Herald
Place Published: Glasgow
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (16 April)..
Description: Brief summary of conflicting critical comment on the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327).
0009365
Publisher: Yorkshire Weekly Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (18 April)..(2 illus).
Description: Comment on the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327), with remarks from D.S. Andrews, Principal of Leeds College of Art, and others: not merely clever but showing original thought and originality of treatment. There was power in the stone.""
0009347
Publisher: Daily Herald
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of Mother and Child, 1930 Ham Hill stone, an illustration which appears in several newspapers of this date: e.g. Birmingham Daily Mail, Liverpool Post and Mercury.
0009370
Publisher: Jewish Chronicle
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (1 May)..Text initialled K.
Description: Endorses Epstein's introduction in reviewing the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 00009327), and stresses Moore's youth: every line and plane is so full of an intense mental activity as to leave us in no doubt that some new and unimaginably richer product will follow.""
0009376
Publisher: Express and Star
Place Published: Wolverhampton
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (25 Nov)..(1 Moore illus).Text initialled U.U.
Description: The author has been collecting photographs which may have value in fifty years, for by that time the statues which they represent will have been smashed by an outraged public". Includes a photograph of Moore's Mother and Child 1930 Ancaster stone."
0009348
Author/Editor: ANDREW Merry.
Publisher: Daily Mirror
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(3 illus).
Description: Caustic review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327) which surpasses in repulsiveness even that of Mr Epstein". The exhibits are described as "hideous and revolting...mineral monstrosities...suffering from elephantiasis and face-ache". See also 0009363."
0009354
Publisher: Bulletin and Scots Pictorial
Place Published: Glasgow
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (15 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of a strange piece of work" at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009327): Mother and Child 1931 Cumberland alabaster."
0009360
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (16 April)..
Description: Comment on letters attacking Henry Moore's work, written further to art critic's article a few days earlier (See 0009350).
0009366
Publisher: Daily Mail
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (21 April)..Text initialled P.J.K.
Description: Short review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327), seen as unexpectedly new, and analogous with Primitive art.
0009352
Publisher: Yorkshire Observer
Place Published: Bradford
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(3 illus).
Description: Review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). Similar text to that appearing in the Sheffield Independent, 14 April 1931 (See 0009351) and Birmingham Gazette, 14 April 1931 (See 0009346).
0009375
Publisher: Yorkshire Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (10 Nov).
Description: Review of Moore's sculpture and drawings in Lefevre group show: it takes liberties with the human form...but usually adds grandeur to that form.""
0009344
Publisher: The Star
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (13 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Caustic review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327): Mr Moore goes in a good deal for reclining figures. No. 31 is labelled thus and the whole expression on the woman's face is symbolic of doubt regret remorse and wistfulness. Clearly she is a typist wondering whether or not she mixed up two important letters the previous evening." The photograph is captioned "Mother and Child (alleged)"."
0009361
Publisher: Yorkshire Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (16 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of Henry Moore, and a brief note on the interest caused by his Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327).
0009367
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (22 April)..
Description: Brief report of comments by Countess Brassey when opening the annual exhibition of the East Sussex Arts Club at Hastings. Includes it almost seems an insult to be asked to look at even a newspaper print of some of Mr Epstein's or Mr Henry Moore's productions". The speech was reported in Hastings Evening Argus 23 April 1931 and Hastings Observer 25 April 1931."
0009345
Publisher: The Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (13 April)..
Description: He has first of all a remarkable invention in the composition of masses and secondly an unusual capacity for feeling his masses in terms of the material he happens to be using." For catalogue see 0009327."
0009351
Publisher: Sheffield Independent
Place Published: Sheffield
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). There is nothing in the exhibition that is not ugly and yet there is evidence to be found at every turn that the sculptor has a real sense of beauty from which he has not yet been able to free himself entirely." Similar texts appeared in Yorkshire Observer 14 April 1931 (See 0009352) and Birmingham Gazette 14 April 1931 (See 0009346)."
0009363
Publisher: Daily Mirror
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (17 April)..
Description: Comment, and letter of outrage at hideous lumps of stone" recently depicted on the front page of the Daily Mirror (See 0009348)."