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0008370
Author/Editor: WELLES Benjamin.
Publisher: New York Times
Place Published: New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (29 April)..
Description: Report in American press of Munnings' outburst, noting references to Moore.
0008376
Publisher: Yorkshire Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (13 May)..
Description: Report containing text of an open letter addressed to Picasso and Matisse, and signed by Henry Moore and eight other important art world people. The letter points out the humiliation felt by the signatories at Munnings' failure to observe the rules of courtesy.
0008363
Publisher: Yorkshire Observer
Place Published: Bradford
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (8 March)..
Description: Note on the arrangements being made for Wakefield City Art Gallery exhibition (See 0008350).
0008359
Publisher: Chronicle and Echo
Place Published: Northampton
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (15 Jan)..
Description: Short review of Northampton exhibition (See 0008485). Moore believes human beings are massive... If the onlooker is reminded of Stonehenge by looking at them Moore is content." A note on the exhibition with a photograph of Moore had appeared in the 10 January 1949 edition of the Chronicle and Echo under the heading Moore's Drawings."
0008365
Author/Editor: SCRIVEN R.C.
Publisher: Yorkshire Observer
Place Published: Bradford
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (2 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Moore's background; and a review of the Wakefield exhibition (See 0008350): Henry Moore speaks in stone with 'the deliberate action of eternity'.""
0008371
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening News
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (29 April)..(2 illus).
Description: Eric Westbrook, E.E. Pullee, Ernest I. Musgrave defend Moore's sculpture against the attack made by Munnings in his Royal Academy speech. Wide press coverage took place on 29 April 1949 of the speech, much of it ostensibly in support of the attack on modern art in its use of headlines e.g. Sir Alfred's great service to art (Bristol Evening Post), Man who trounced the moderns (South Wales Echo), Plain men thank Sir Alfred (Oxford Mail).
0008377
Publisher: Yorkshire Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (23 May)..
Description: Attendance records were broken at Wakefield City Art Gallery by 9995 people seeing the Henry Moore exhibition (See 0008350), with children particularly showing spontaneous appreciation of the works.
0008383
Publisher: Le Peuple
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (9 Oct)..(1 illus).Initialled L.P. Text in French.
Description: Short review of Brussels exhibition (See 0008026), which outlines briefly some of the influences on Moore's work.
0008400
Author/Editor: KLUYSKENS Pierre.
Publisher: De Gentenaar
Place Published: Ghent
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (23 Oct)..Text in Dutch.
Description: Exhibition review (See 0008026), noting Moore's standing, but seeing the sculpture as unsuccessful.
0008406
Publisher: Nieuwe Gids
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (1 Nov)..(2 illus).Initialled N.V.K. Text in Dutch.
Description: Review of Paleis voor schone Kunsten exhibition (See 0008026), the divided critical response, and comparisons with Michelangelo.
0008382
Author/Editor: DENVIR Bernard.
Publisher: Daily Herald
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (7 Oct)..(1 illus).
Description: Simple guide to appreciation of Henry Moore's work written on the eve of the Brussels exhibition (See 0008026).
0008388
Author/Editor: ROUSSEAU Robert.
Publisher: Journal de Charleroi
Place Published: Charleroi
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (12 Oct)..(1 illus).Text in French.
Description: Short review of Palais des Beaux Arts exhibition (See 0008026): abstraction gives expression of power of the sculpture, while retaining essential natural root of figuration.
0008394
Author/Editor: GERARD Jo.
Publisher: Libre Belgique
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (14 Oct)..(1 illus).Text in French.
Description: Attack on Moore's work, and on the authorities for mounting the exhibition (See 0008026).
0008360
Publisher: News Chronicle
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (20 Jan)..
Description: News note that Henry Moore is working on the statuette Seated Figure, 1949 bronze which will be the 1949 British Film Academy award, after a drawing was approved by the Academy.
0008366
Author/Editor: OLIVER W.T.
Publisher: Yorkshire Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (4 April)..
Description: Appreciative review of 0008350, the sculpture being seen as an expression of feeling about man and nature and life itself". The War Drawings "represent humanity helpless but still dignified waiting for the terror to pass"."
0008372
Publisher: Yorkshire Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (30 April)..(2 illus).
Description: Philip HENDY statement supporting Moore and other contemporary artists against Munnings. Moore's comment: A lot of silly remarks were made at the dinner. But it is well known that Sir Alfred is a violent critic of contemporary art. I do not care what his opinions are.""
0008389
Publisher: Nieuwe Gids
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (12 Oct)..Text in Dutch.
Description: Review of Brussels retrospective (See 0008026), noting Moore's unusual form of expression, and outlining his life and career.
0008395
Publisher: Volonté
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (14 Oct)..(1 illus).Text in French.
Description: Brief review of Brussels exhibition (See 0008026): We are in the presence of objects that satisfy...""
0008401
Publisher: De Standaard
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (23 Oct)..(3 illus).Initialled U.V. Text in Dutch.
Description: Review of Brussels exhibition (See 0008026), citing Moore's influences, but seeing his work as characteristic of a decline in art.
0008407
Publisher: Libre Belgique
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (4 Nov)..(1 illus).Text in French.
Description: Summary of press comments at the end of the Brussels exhibition (See 0008026).
0008361
Publisher: Northampton Independent
Place Published: Northampton
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (21 Jan)..(1 illus).
Description: Slightly unfavourable review of Northampton Central Art Gallery drawings exhibition (See 0008485): distortion becomes a merit and drabness a virtue.""
0008384
Author/Editor: NELSON S.E.
Publisher: Evening Herald
Place Published: Dublin
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (10 Oct)..
Description: Popular introduction to Henry Moore's life and career as British Council exhibition begins European tour (See 0008026).
0008390
Author/Editor: DAVID F.K.
Publisher: Nieuws van den Dag
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (12 Oct)..(1 illus).Text in Dutch.
Description: Short exhibition notice (See 0008026), which finds Moore's work interesting, not beautiful.
0008396
Publisher: La Métropole
Place Published: Antwerp
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (15 Oct)..(2 illus).Text in French.
Description: Brief biographical outline followed by aesthetic review of the Brussels exhibition (See 0008026). Sees Moore's greatest merit as his genius for discovering harmonious simplifications.