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0000694
Publisher: D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre
Place Published: Durham
Year: 1984
Date & Collation: (13 Oct-11 Nov).6pp folder.Illus.Text Alison REDWOOD.Poems.
Description: Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition touring Wakefield, Huddersfield, Sunderland and Worcester through 27 April 1985.
Works by 39 artists, including Moore's Cyclops, 1973 lithograph from Wakefield Art Gallery and Museum.
Henry Moore: Head-Helmet.
0001479
Publisher: D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre
Place Published: Durham
Year: 1982
Date & Collation: (12 June-25 July).48pp(75 illus).Biog.Bibliog.Prefatory texts by F.G.T.HOLLIDAY, Stella ROBINSON, Nerys A.JOHNSON.
Description: An exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the University of Durham. The theme...is the development of the head in Henry Moore's sculpture."
Phillip KING provides a short text on Moore's working day recalling his time as assistant to Moore at Much Hadham. Nerys Johnson provides a short introduction surveying the theme in Moore's work from the Spanish Prisoner 1939 drawing through Helmet Heads to Atom Piece (Working Model for Nuclear Energy) 1964-1965 bronze. There is a brief quotation from Geoffrey Grigson's text to Heads Figures and Ideas (See 0007315). There is an informative commentary to most of the 81 exhibits (Carvings Bronzes Drawings Prints Tapestry) dating between 1923-1980 often incorporating statements by Moore or others writing on his work."