Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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Plates 1 and 11(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Photographs of Brown Tube Shelter 1940 drawing and The Bride 1939-1940 lead and wire: related to text on pages 194-200 by E.H. RAMSDEN: 'New trends in painting and sculpture: modern art forms considered in relation to the past and to the future.'"
Plates 25-26(2 illus) Henry Moore: two Sculptures 1939.
A companion volume is British Sculpture 1944-1946 (See 0008587).
Try this book it may give you a start.
The verses are done by Jan Gordon
Whose outlook you'll find is a broad'un
With drawings by Bateman
Of course a first-rate man."
6484 Henry Moore.
A five-line note describing Moore cites his figure as "not so much a thought and a thing but a thing-of-a thought". His War Drawings "embody rather more visible representationalism couched in a novel and interesting technique". The 'entry' for Moore reads:
Henry Moore
Opened a door
Into a room
Filled with boombroomloomgloomanbloomcroom."
154.Figs 25 and 26(2 illus) Henry Moore.
In an essay on pages 151-155 by Charles SELTMAN entitled The Greek Tradition in Modern Art: "Henry Moore in London carved an interesting figure (Fig. 25) all angles bumps and unexpected shapes which proclaims a relationship deep in the subconscious perhaps with the Ancient of Keros who made a Parian marble harpist (Fig. 26) 5000 years ago." The Moore is Reclining Woman 1930 green Hornton stone. See also 0008793."
November 1944 reprint of 0008592.
The Penguin Modern Painters series. Life, influences and work of Henry Moore, including a note on his use of colour. All of the illustrations are of drawings, dating from 1930-1942. Incorporates statements by Moore, and relates the shapes of Natural objects to the forms produced by the artist as sculpture and drawing. Analogies are found between Moore's figures and the darkness of the womb, and stone images as diverse as Easter Island and medieval cathedrals. Anything solid that can show the wonder and mystery of life appeals to Henry Moore." Moore's concept of drawing as a help towards sculpture is outlined "as well as his drawings for drawing or the enjoyment of drawing". The War Drawings are discussed and are seen as "nearer to the natural proportions of men and women". Nature provides "the lovely effectiveness of colour" in Moore drawings from the "lichen of the grey rock the coloured texture of weather-worn stone the fiery black and red of igneous formations or burning coal". Cover illustration of Study for Reclining Figure in Wood 1941 (HMF 1531).
ix-xv List of Plates.
xvi List of Owners.
xvii-xxxvii READ Herbert. Introduction.
(History and forms of sculpture, Rodin, carving and modelling, constructive and organic, beauty. Incorporates statements by Moore, and photographs of historical and modern sculpture. Comments on Moore's Drawings, use of the Human figure and Natural forms, truth to material, vitality, asymmetry, themes, War Drawings as an integral part of his artistic evolution).
xxxvii Biographical Note, Bibliography.
xxxix-xliv Essays by Henry Moore.
(The Sculptor's Aims: from Unit One (See 0009258); Notes on Sculpture: originally published in the Listener (See 0009196); Primitive Art: from the Listener, 24 April 1941 (See 0009071)).
Plates.
(Grouped as Stone; Terracotta and Concrete; Wood; Stringed Figures; Metal; Sketches and Drawings. Incorporates fourteen colour plates tipped in).
For revised editions see 0008704, 0008336, 0007333. The 5th edition was published in 1988.