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0020424

Author/Editor: FURST Herbert.

Publisher: Apollo

Place Published: London.

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (Dec) 343-344.

Description: Includes a short review of Young British Artists at the Lefevre Gallery. Frances Hodgkins, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, John Aldridge, David Jones, and Henry Moore. Mr Henry Moore's drawings... are most entertaining and this being so I cannot help thinking that sculpture is not the right medium for his distorted carvings... they take upon themselves an air of humorless ponderosity"."

0009391

Publisher: London Mercury

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (May)..

Description: Short review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). With an almost scientific aloofness he concentrates on the rhythms of shapes and in order to achieve these rhythms he is prepared to distort natural shapes to any extent.""

0009394

Author/Editor: BURY Adrian.

Publisher: Saturday Review

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (25 April)..

Description: Includes a short and disapproving review of the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327): we refuse to regard Mr Moore as important because his mind far from being inventive and imaginative is sterile and simple to the point of negation. Such sculpture is trying to lead us away from civilization... The sort of sculpture like the drawings exhibited in the same room is far too easy to do given an arrogant contempt for European tradition...""

0009382

Publisher: Architectural Review

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (June)..

Description: Brief answers by Henry Moore to three questions on submission, purpose and possible reform of the Royal Academy of Arts. The sculpture at the R.A. is of an even lower standard than the painting; when it is not incompetent it is purely commercial... It is impossible to expect the R.A. to judge with understanding or sympathy the work of artists more alive to contemporary growths and movements...""

0009383

Author/Editor: GORDON-STABLES Louise.

Publisher: Art News

Place Published: New York

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (9 May)..

Description: Includes a short review of Moore's Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). Finds Epstein's introduction illogical and noncommittal, and Moore's materials unpleasant in colour and surface, except for his use of concrete: the most acceptable work is to be found in the masks and in the heads of low relief where the formalism adopted offends less than the deliberate distortion practised in the figures in the round.""

0009389

Author/Editor: READ Herbert.

Publisher: Kunstblatt

Place Published: Berlin

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (June) 167-170(4 illus).Text in German.

Description: Short text on Moore, and one or two other sculptors working in England at the time. Includes a brief outline of Moore's early career, and photographs of four carvings 1927-1931.

0009395

Publisher: Sketch

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (22 April) 94(5 illus).

Description: Photographs of five sculptures from the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327), with the caption quoting Epstein's Before these works I ponder in silence..."."

0009381

Publisher: Architectural Design and Construction

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (April) 1(6) 242(1 illus).

Description: Brief favourable review of Moore's carvings and drawings at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009327), recommended for those architects who are interested in the possibilities which the advance movement in sculpture holds for their art"."

0009393

Author/Editor: EARP T.W.

Publisher: New Statesman and Nation

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (18 April)..

Description: Review column which includes 11 lines on Moore's Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327) of outstanding merit...with its curious mingling of the human form with the forms of nature...his sense of material is a delight.""

0009399

Publisher: Truth

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (22 April)..

Description: Review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327), suggesting that the best way to approach Moore's work is by thinking of it in terms of stone: If we...think of Mr Moore's figures as stone men and women and not as men and women in stone their peculiarities in form are much more understandable.""

0009379

Publisher: Apollo

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (May) 330.

Description: The reviewer dislikes Moore's distorted references to the human figure, and would prefer the work to be completely abstract. While appreciating the sculptor's enquiring mind and technical ability, the work is dismissed as wrongheaded" and "full of associative matter in the wrong place". For catalogue see 0009327."

0009385

Publisher: Connoisseur

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (Jan)..

Description: Short review of exhibition at new Zwemmer Gallery, mentioning Moore who "dissects his models in the manner of an architect producing workman's drawings of great power and diagrammatic quality".

0009397

Author/Editor: SAINT BERNARD Gui.

Publisher: Studio

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (June) 450.

Description: Short review of 0009327: there is a strange sense of the mightier parts of the earth's architecture. A reclining woman for example is not so much that as a land formation.."
Author's name as printed: Gui St. Bernard.
Cited in Art Index as 'Atelier 1 (Studio 101)'."

0009390

Author/Editor: READ Herbert.

Publisher: Listener

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (22 April) 688-689(2 illus).

Description: Weekly Notes on Art series. The art of sculpture, which has been dead in England, and perhaps in Europe, for four centuries, is reborn in the work of Henry Moore, now on exhibition at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009327). His personal will to dominate material and form, and not to be balked by any conventions takes him to the head of the modern movement in sculpture. The key to the appreciation and understanding of Moore's work is in the nature of the material used and the translation of meaning into that material. Further to Moore's success is his awareness of form, and the ability to create out of a conception which inheres in the mass itself. Form is then an intuition of surface made by the sculptor imaginatively situated at the centre of gravity of the block before him". The illustrations are: Mother and Child 1930 Ham Hill stone and Composition 1931 blue Hornton stone. Letters commenting on this article appeared in the Listener for 29 April 1931 (Mark Springer on stone as stone) and 6 May 1931 (Percival Gough on creative forms of rebirth from the very material of the Earth; and C.S. Meacham "Russian Bolshevism destructive of all that is highest and best in life is indeed making a deep inroad into all that civilisation has done so far".)"

0009396

Publisher: Sphere

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (2 May) 197(1 Moore illus).

Description: Photograph of Mother and Child, 1930 Ham Hill stone, a study of incredible ingenuity...which is creating quite an artistic sensation at the Leicester Galleries" (See 0009327)."

0009380

Author/Editor: BEDFORD R.P.

Publisher: Architectural Design and Construction

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (Feb) 1(4) 130-134(1 Moore illus).

Description: Survey of some recent work, including a photograph of Moore's 'North' wind, the most successful in suggesting three-dimensional form" of the Underground Building carvings. West Wind 1928-1929 Portland stone."

0009392

Publisher: Naval and Military Record

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (13 May)..

Description: Report of talk by Lieut.-Col. W.P. Drury, Mayor of Saltash, at Plymouth Arts Club in which he attacked 'Woman and Child' for its lack of naturalistic anatomical accuracy. Meaningless" and "decadent" were used and the sculpture is seen as typifying the unlovely characteristics of an age of "gramophones loud speakers motor bikes petrol pumps Bolshevism and jazz"."

0009398

Publisher: Tatler

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (22 April)..

Description: Short review of the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). Owing to the cut of his work most of Mr Moore's subjects wear a worried look. Not theirs the somewhat expressionless serenity of Ancient Greece rather they seem to be anxiously seeking to solve modern problems.""

0009400

Author/Editor: DELBANCO Gustav.

Publisher: Weltkunst

Place Published: Munich

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (26 April) 5(17) 15(1 Moore illus).Text in German.

Description: Review article devoted almost entirely to Moore's Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). Notes current art world trend away from the traditional towards revolutionary new forms. Little evidence of this in England except for the work of a few sculptors. It is difficult to approach Moore's art: there are no obvious links with English or Greek traditions or any other well-known styles; there is no clear starting point. An emotional appreciation sees the intrinsic value of the forms, with holes breaking up the surface, and reality acquiring a new dimension. His drawings have a tranquillity about them, and are an even more private phase of his outlook.

0009386

Publisher: Graphic

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (10 Jan)..

Description: Photograph of Reclining Figure, 1929 brown Hornton stone with the caption: The Reclining Woman a carving in Hornton stone by Mr Henry Moore A.R.C.A. is a typical example of the sculpture condemned by Mr J.C. Moody President of the National Society of Art Masters as exemplifying Bolshevism in modern art." Mr Moore a teacher of sculpture whose aim has been described as "to make a new mould for the word 'beautiful' is holding an exhibition shortly at the Leicester Galleries" (See 0009327)."

0009387

Publisher: Graphic

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (18 April)..(3 illus).

Description: Brief summary of the reactions to the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327), with good photographs of Mother and Child, 1930 Ham Hill stone, Girl with Clasped Hands, 1930 Cumberland alabaster and Reclining Woman, 1930 green Hornton stone. Mr Moore is a glyphic artist; that is he extracts from his medium the peculiar form it suggests...One critic says Mr Moore's nudes 'resemble no known mortals but are nevertheless instinct with life'; while another says of one specimen: 'It is almost impossible to believe that it came from the hands of a man of normal mentality'.""

0009388

Publisher: The Islanders

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (15 June) 1(1) 32pp.Illus.

Description: First issue of a projected quarterly magazine from a group of poets and artists who have taken the name of The Islanders, after meeting at the instigation of Leon Underwood. Contains two 1931 prints by Henry Moore on pages 7 and 14 (Figures: Sculptures, 1931 wood engraving and Reclining Nude, 1931 wood engraving). The introduction by Josef Bard, the editor, contains the paragraph: Henry Moore suggested that a congenial atmosphere in which contemporary art could flourish is more than ever needed to facilitate the crystallisation of proper classical forms for each artist's individual emotional glow." Issue 2/3 was published in September 1931 and issue 4 in December 1931. See also 0009384."

0009384

Author/Editor: WILLIAMSON Hugh Ross.

Publisher: Bookman

Place Published: London

Year: 1931

Date & Collation: (July)..

Description: Review of the first issue of The Island (See 0009388), listing Henry Moore as a member of the group of The Islanders, along with Grace Rogers, Velona Pilcher, Ralph Chubb, Eileen Agar, John Gould Fletcher, Leon Underwood, Laurence Bradshaw, Blair Hughes-Stanton and others.