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0010720
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1983
Date & Collation: 3 hours 30 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Relates to film 0000946. Two audio cassettes of sounds of activity on Much Hadham estate; and interview between Henry MOORE and Huw WHELDON on Drawing, including Shelter and Coal Mine Drawings; Kenneth Clark and Herbert Read; Alice Gostick; Tip cat; Human figure; Materials; Holes; Carving; Jacob Epstein; Henri Gaudier-Brzeska; William Rothenstein's support of Moore against adverse press criticism; Words and literature; Michelangelo; Rembrandt; Maquettes; Northampton Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone and religion; Commission of Large Arch, 1979-1980 travertine marble for Hyde Park; Sheep Piece, 1971-1972 bronze; King and Queen, 1952-1953 bronze at Glenkiln and the contrast between the symbolic heads and the human hands; Rubbing his mother's back; Reclining Figure theme and Divided Figures; the Henry Moore Foundation; Tapestries; Yorkshire background; Curt Valentin; Elephant Skull; Cézanne; Art collection of Henry Moore; Giacometti; Stringed Figures; Much Hadham estate and sculpture in the Open Air; Pre-Columbian sculpture; Sheep Sketchbook; Picasso Guernica visit; Surrealism; Joan Miró; Blind and sculpture.
0010751
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1972
Date & Collation: 14 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Copy, received from David Katzive, of the telephone conversation printed in Art Journal, Spring 1973 (See 0004164). The printed version is very slightly edited and omits the questions/promptings by David Katzive which produced Moore's comments. In a note accompanying the tape (which he refers to under the title Interview with Henry Moore at Home by David Katzive from Philadelphia, 1972), David Katzive states that the tape was played in an exhibition about Nuclear Energy, 1964-1966 bronze at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1972.
0016262
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1977
Date & Collation: 4 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Tape inscribed: Henry Moore Transfer of Title 1/31/77". In Munson Williams Proctor Institute Guy Farmer representing Henry Moore transfers title of 81 graphics on exhibit to Robert J. Corber representing the Henry Moore Foundation. Also present Becky J. Koch. See 0003269 0003591."
0018105
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1998
Date & Collation: 7mins.Sound recording.
Description: Female introduces Moore's centenary year, and at National Gallery interviews Margaret McLeod, the curator of the exhibition (See 0017650). Brief comments on Massacio, British Museum, direct carving, open-air. Outlines history and work of the Henry Moore Foundation, and mentions forthcoming Open Day on 20 June 1998 (See 0017796).
Repeated on 0018106.
0018106
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1998
Date & Collation: 11minutes.Sound recording.
Description: Repeats 7 minute interview Henry Moore, McLeod (See 0018105).
Adds 4 minutes in which female interviews David Mitchinson in Aisled Barn on Moore's tapestries and textiles. Also Michel Muller on Moore's straightforward personality and routine working day.
Probably recorded on 20 June 1998 Open Day (See 0017796).
0019947
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham.
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: 60mins.Sound recording.
Description: Tape recording of 18 November 1986 Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Henry Moore O.M., C.H. 1898-1986 at Westminster Abbey. See 0012397 for programme and those taking part.
Side A: 30mins. Organ playing, Readings, Hymns, and Music.^Side B: 30mins. Henry Moore, O.M.: a memorial address by Stephen Spender (See 0010935), followed by closing hymns, prayers, music, and organ playing.
0017379
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1995
Date & Collation: 15 minutes. Colour.
Description: Anonymous amateur video depicting exterior of building, and trees being cleared from its grounds. No words.
0015339
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1992
Date & Collation: 5 mins.Colour.Sound.
Description: Views of sculpture at Bagatelle to music. John Farnham and workmen installing bronzes. Brief commentary on the setting for the sculptures. Cassette labelled: Erica Bolton and Jane Quinn. Henry Moore Foundation Exposition.
0006097
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1965
Date & Collation: 5 mins.Black and white.Sound.
Description: Henry Moore at Henraux, speaking in English to workman who replies in Italian, discussing qualities of marble and techniques of cutting it from the mountain. Cited as: Henry Moore Visits Carrara, Zonal Film Facilities Ltd 1965.
0009710
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: 26 sound recordings.
Description: About 50 hours of tape recorded, informal conversations between Henry Moore and John Hedgecoe at Much Hadham, with contributions by Irina Moore. Made in preparation for the books Henry Spencer Moore (See 0005040) and also the 1986 Henry Moore (See 0000066). Typed transcripts exist of some of the tapes; and there are half-a-dozen additional typescripts, in varying stages of revision and duplication. Typed in January 1985 they are mostly recollections of childhood years. Identification is by the Henry Moore Foundation library accession numbers A74-A99. Tapes 84-99 were probably made during 1984 and 1985, towards the end of Moore's life. They are late, hesitant recollections, and lack the content of the artist's earlier statements.
Tape A74. (Inscribed 'Reel 1'. Discusses format of Henry Spencer Moore book, and comments on photographs on pages 1-67, thus providing edited extracts from the recording as some of the text which appears in the book).
Tape A75. (Inscribed 'Reel 2'. Much Hadham Church heads, Henry Spencer Moore photographs and text going back over early pages. Holes, Cubist and Cycladic art. Kent. Pebbles. Pages 68-75 approx.).
Tape A76. (Inscribed 'Reel 3'. Chalk stone. Courtney Pollack. Early press criticism and subsequent attacks on Moore's work. Pages 80-81 and continuation of Henry Spencer Moore. Tape bears mss. inscription 7.30. 22nd Oct").
Tape A77. (Inscribed 'Reel 4'. Kent. Maquettes. Wood. Henry Spencer Moore book: approx. page 100).
Tape A78. (Inscribed 'Reel 5'. Surrealist and abstract influences Michelangelo; Northampton Madonna and Child 1943-1944 Hornton stone; Religious art; Reclining Figure theme; Stringed Figures; Titles of art works; Form and space in sculpture; Natural forms; Three Standing Figures 1947-1948 Darley Dale stone; Memorial Figure 1945-1946 Hornton stone. Up to page 175).
Tape A79. (Inscribed 'Reel 6' . Family Groups Rocking Chairs Leaf Figures Bronze casting Drapery Much Hadham Church heads. Time-Life Screen 1952-1953 Portland stone and its maquettes. King and Queen 1952-1953 bronze Hands. Henry Spencer Moore coverage pages approx. 174-239).
Tape A80. (Inscribed 'Reel 7'. Harlow Family Group 1954-1955 Hadene stone; Upright Motives; Sectional lines; Wall Relief 1955 brick; Reclining Figures. Relates to Henry Spencer Moore approx. pages 240-339).
Tape A81. (Inscribed 'Reel 8'. Moore describes his time as a student teacher immediately before and directly after World War 1. Leeds School of Art. Henry Spencer Moore book pages 340-357. Two-part Reclining Figures and rock formations and their construction in plaster. Critics. Royal College of Art William Rothenstein and others).
Tape A82. (Inscribed 'Reel 10'. Follows on directly from Reel 8. Comments on Henry Spencer Moore pages 358-435. 1960 Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition (See 0006882); Much Hadham gardens and space for work Natural forms. Bridges and Arches. Forte dei Marmi. Holidays and work).
Tape A83. (Described as 'Reel 12 the last'. Side B seems to continue briefly the conversation on Forte dei Marmi from Tape A82. Side A discusses a city like a house in its placing of sculpture. Open Air sculpture exhibitions. Henry Spencer Moore pages approx. 478-to end. Three Way Piece No. 2: Archer 1964 plaster and the T.S. Eliot stage design (See 0005927)).
Tape A84. (Inscribed 'Done by...October 1984'. Carving holes; sculpture as full-time work; ambition to be a writer; architecture; countryside and change).
Tape A85. (Typescript inscribed 'Typed 19 Dec 1984'. Touching sculpture Rodin Natural forms financial security personal and domestic matters).
Tape A86. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore 3.2.85. Typed'. Drawing; Leon Underwood as a teacher; British Council; Curt Valentin and other dealers and friends).
Tape A87. (Conversational recollections on pre-war Paris, English artists, J.B. Priestley's recent death (i.e. August 1984). Meeting Irena Radetzky and early married life in Dedham (Cuckoo Cottage) before moving to Hampstead. Appreciation of abstraction. Drapery. Wood as a material. Art and life and reality).
Tape A88. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore. March 1985 tape (2) Typed'. Early life: Castleford; Alice Gostick; World War 1. It's 2 March 1985. Domestic conversation on children and grandchildren, and friends. Forte dei Marmi).
Tape A89. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore conversation about photographs April 1985. Typed'. John Hedgecoe, Irina Moore and Henry Moore looking admiringly at photographs from 1986 book).
Tape A90. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore conversation June 1985. Typed'. Recollections of the 1930s, the Human figure, Landscape).
Tape A91. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore Tape 4. Typed'. Sheep drawings, Stonehenge, Glenkiln, Irina Moore on Dedham).
Tape A92. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore 7. Typed'. John Hedgecoe and Henry Moore looking at photographs for 1986 book. Public acclaim, drawing, art).
Tape A93. (Inscribed 'Tape 8 Henry Moore. Typed'. Three-dimensional form, Raymond Spencer Moore (father)).
Tape A94. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore Tape 9. Typed'. Leeds School of Art and Royal College of Art student life, Michael Rothenstein).
Tape A95. (Inscribed 'Tape 10. Henry Moore. Typed'. Nostalgic recollections, mainly of 1920s and 1930s as student and as teacher).
Tape A96. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore. Tape 11. Typed'. Hesitant, late comments on the arts/ Mentions recent visit of President Mitterrand (i.e. October 1984)).
Tape A97. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore. Tape 14. Typed'. Cézanne and historical art).
Tape A98. (Inscribed 'Repeating Conversations with H.M. on Heredity'. 10 mins. John Hedgecoe, dictating, paraphrases Moore's comments on heredity and environment. See 1986 book pages 101, 149).
Tape A99. (Inscribed 'Henry Moore August 7th 1984' and 'Last Visit'. John Hedgecoe announces Ebury Press book. Recollections of Castleford, childhood, Yorkshire landscape, early education, World War 1, Northampton Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone, Shelter drawings, early married life in several locations).
0006098
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1965
Date & Collation: 40 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Excellent interview with Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition assistant, discussing works to be displayed. Conversation used at the exhibition (See 0005903). Topics and works ranged over Working Model for Locking Piece, 1962 bronze; beauty and sculptural objective; backgrounds for sculpture; Upright Figures and thin forms; Time-Life Screen, 1952-1953 Portland stone; Maquettes, physical size and mental scale; Virginia; use of bronze; Helmet Heads; Family Groups and Mother and Child theme; and Stringed Figures. See also 0006099.
0006099
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1965
Date & Collation: 10 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition (See 0005903) contained recorded interviews with Henry Moore (See 0006098) which could be heard on telephones by the exhibits. Marie Louise PINCKNEY explains to Fred HAZELTINE how she visited Moore at Much Hadham to obtain the interview. Moore is heard in two brief extracts, speaking about the Working Model for Locking Piece, 1962 bronze and about bronze.
0009656
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1965
Date & Collation: 20 mins.Black and white.Sound.In German, with Henry MOORE talking in English.V14
Description: Film, without title or credits, of Henry Moore at Noack Foundry in Berlin examining work in progress on Sundial, 1965-1966 bronze, Nuclear Energy, 1964-1966 bronze. In interview Moore outlines his early career, influence of the British Museum, the Human figure, materials and idea, and working from Maquettes. Slides of other works by Moore are seen during the interview. Hermann Noack and Werner Haftmann also appear. There is a section on the site of the Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie with Three Way Piece No. 2: Archer, 1964-1965 bronze.
0011383
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1989
Date & Collation: 60 mins sound recording.
Description: To sound of slide projector, Brenda RAWNSLEY reminisces about Derek Rawnsley 1911-1943, and the founding and development of School Prints. Mentions Henry Moore drawing onto plastic sheet, and his concern about colour, and the French prints by Picasso, Léger, Braque, Dufy and Matisse with whom his work was included. The lithographs by the six artists were launched/exhibited at 39 Eaton Square on 28 April 1949: temporary premises of School Prints at the time. Sculptural Objects, 1949 lithograph. Never issued were the black and white commissions, Reclining Figure and Ideas for Sculpture, 1949 lithograph and Seated Figures, 1949 lithograph.
See also 0012715 and 0012809.
0009928
Author/Editor: MOORE Henry.
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1975
Date & Collation: 28 min + 26 min. Sound recording.
Description: Double-sided tape recording in preparation for 0003377, in which Moore examines the Sketchbook with David MITCHINSON, and comments on asymmetry, pebble forms, carving and modelling, the world tradition of sculpture, animal forms, sense of touch, Reclining Figure theme, and drawing and sculpture relationship.
0009899
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1974
Date & Collation: 90 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Long interview in Hoglands by female interviewer, possibly Italian. Dated from references to recent opening of Henry Moore Sculpture Centre at Art Gallery of Ontario, and Turner exhibition currently at the Royal Academy of Arts. Influence of Old Masters, Maquettes, Stringed Figures, Naum Gabo, Architecture and sculpture, Open Air, Bronzes and lost wax casting technique, changing pattern of acceptance of modern art, Teaching, Paris 1920s, Size and scale, Reclining Figure theme, War Drawings, Drapery, Childhood, Moore's father, T.R. Dawes, Alice Gostick, Leeds School of Art, Sunday School Michelangelo story, Stage Designs, Florence exhibition (See 0004285), Plasters, Holes, Three-dimensionality.
0010044
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: 50 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Tape from the National Sound Archive of Henry MOORE, with David MITCHINSON, speaking informally at Much Hadham, in preparation for Henry Moore: sculptures in landscape (See 0002883). Early memories of Adel Rock, Stonehenge. Sky as the best background to sculpture with the solid form contrasting with open space. Variations of outdoor light: Winter, Summer, moonlight and its effect on sculpture. Preference for working out of doors, and the larger scale needed for works in natural settings. Recalls carving out of doors in Kent, the majority of larger works being produced in Summer vacations from teaching. Problems posed by architectural settings. Glenkiln sculptures. Move to Much Hadham in 1940 after bomb damage to Hampstead studio, Kent by now being a restricted area. Bernard Meadows assistant at this time. First Battersea Park open air exhibition (See 0008483) and subsequent developments in Sculpture Parks and Gardens.
0010043
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: 3 mins.Colour.Silent.
Description: Amateur film of children on Moore bronze in front of the Serpentine Gallery (See 0002718 and 0002719). Inscribed: 'Serpentine Oct 78. People and 2 Large Forms. Jane Whittle.'
0010088
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 30 mins. Sound recording.
Description: Walter Strachan reads in English extracts from a dozen letters he received in his liaising between Jonquières and Moore on the production of Prométhée (See 0008261). They date from 4 May 1950 to 12 March 1951 and range over Jonquières' initial concept; the participation of Mourlot; the timing, with pressure from Gide; and details of plates and proofs. Moore visited Paris during the project and Jonquières expressed his satisfaction. Moore understands everything...exact realisation of what I had felt and dreamed of". Publication preview took place in Galerie Maeght 11 May 1951 sponsored by British Council and continued to 23 May 1951."
0010040
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: 3 mins.Colour.Sound.
Description: Without title or credits. Poorly filmed interview with Moore on the value of art, standing with interviewer in front of Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 2, 1960 bronze. All good art is optimistic...artists don't need a formal religion...art is to make us enjoy...""
0004438
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1972
Date & Collation: 30 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Informal tape at Forte dei Marmi with Henry and Irina Moore, Dimitri Hadzi and others. Mentions Sheep Sketchbook in progress, and choice of marble block for Circular Altar, 1972 Roman travertine marble.
0014448
Author/Editor: INGHAM Alan
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1990
Date & Collation: 65mins.Sound recording.
Description: Alan Ingham on HM 2/10/90". Barely audible tape of Ingham in conversation with others on techniques of working sculpture as Moore's assistant in the 1950s. Mentions Oliffe Richmond. Describes lead casting at Much Hadham. Moore's design of Time-Life Screen 1952-1953 Portland stone."
0010172
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1981
Date & Collation: 35mins+20mins.Sound recording.
Description: In conversation with David Mitchinson, Margaret McLeod, Ian Barker and others, Moore recalls 1934 trip to Spain with Irina Moore, Raymond Coxon and Edna Ginesi. Recalls Altamira Caves, attending a Bull Fight, also his visit to Picasso's studio in Paris during painting of Guernica. Mentions of other artists briefly, including Miró and Giacometti.
This is recorded on either side of an interview with a South American interviewer (thus wiping first five minutes of interview) on political art, the Henry Moore Foundation, drawing in education, Rembrandt, and religion.
0010176
Author/Editor: ROITMAN Nanny.
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1981
Date & Collation: 42 mins.Sound recording.A113, A114
Description: Outline of Moore's career, and reading of quotations from published writings of Henry Moore and Herbert Read on sculpture and individual works, to a background of music and with long musical pauses. This was part of an "audio-visual exhibition" produced by Roitman, and was accompanied by 200 slides showing 55 Henry Moore sculptures.