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Publisher: Architectural Review
Place Published: London
Year: 1944
Date & Collation: (May) 137-140(7 illus).
Description: Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone for Church of St. Matthew's Northampton. Consists of an introduction which quotes Henry Moore, followed by short appreciations by Geoffrey GRIGSON and Eric NEWTON. One of the illustrations is of a series of nine preliminary statuettes in clay. Grigson values the intricacy, solidarity, and balance of the work, also its feeling and tenderness. His only misgiving is that it lacks belief. Newton is less reticent in his admiration for the sculpture: The statue is both a descendant of and a challenge to a thousand enthroned Madonnas of the past..." A following issue of Architectural Review prints a letter from Walter Hussey refuting Grigson's inference of Moore's lack of theological conviction."