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0009360
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (16 April)..
Description: Comment on letters attacking Henry Moore's work, written further to art critic's article a few days earlier (See 0009350).
0009367
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (22 April)..
Description: Brief report of comments by Countess Brassey when opening the annual exhibition of the East Sussex Arts Club at Hastings. Includes it almost seems an insult to be asked to look at even a newspaper print of some of Mr Epstein's or Mr Henry Moore's productions". The speech was reported in Hastings Evening Argus 23 April 1931 and Hastings Observer 25 April 1931."
0009416
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1930
Date & Collation: (13 Dec)..(1 illus).
Description: Brief comments on Wilenski's Apollo article (See 0009418), described as Bolshevist art" with statements by famous sculptors Sir William Goscombe John Mr S.C. Jagger (sic) and Mr. Albert Toft ranging from "aimless creations" to "I do not think that this rubbish will really have a serious effect upon real art"."
0009369
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (27 April)..
Description: Brief letter from William V.H. COBBETT, commenting on Art Critic's protest opposing this cult of distortion and ugliness" (See 0009350)."
0009334
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (11 April)..
Description: Brief scathing attack on Leicester Galleries exhibits (See 0009327): He shows an utter contempt for the natural beauty of women and children and in doing so deprives even stone of its value as a means of aesthetic and emotional expression." In fairness to Moore the article finishes with the brief quotation from Epstein's catalogue introduction."
0009436
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (13 April)..
Description: Brief text by art critic of Morning Post condemning the grotesque figures" on the Underground Railway Headquarters. Moore's West Wind 1928-1929 Portland stone is described as "unpardonable". Letters in support of this view were printed in the Morning Post of 15 19 and 22 April."
0009350
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Slightly incomplete cutting 'By Our Art Critic' with a photograph of Mother and Child, 1930 Ham Hill stone. It begins We apologise for publishing even a photograph of the least objectionable of Mr. Henry Moore's statuary on view at the Leicester Galleries. For surely most people will hold it to be revolting as a representation of a woman and child and ignoble as a work of art". It continues with terms like "depraved...impossible to believe it came from the hands of a man of normal mentality...its colour has a leprous look that makes one shudder...deplorable and ends Frankly we think that Mr Moore's work is a menace from which students at the Royal College should be protected". For catalogue see 0009327.
(This is the particular review cited in later years as indicative of the hostility of critics to Moore's early work. For other Morning Post features see 0009416936993679360 0009334. For their coverage of the 1928 Warren Gallery exhibition see 0009451 and for their remarks on West Wind see 0009436. The Daily Mirror also attacked Moore's work (See 0009348) while in contrast extremely favourable reviews appeared in The Observer (See 0009338) and The Jewish Chronicle (See 0009370). The remaining critics seemed to take less polarised stances.)"
(This is the particular review cited in later years as indicative of the hostility of critics to Moore's early work. For other Morning Post features see 0009416936993679360 0009334. For their coverage of the 1928 Warren Gallery exhibition see 0009451 and for their remarks on West Wind see 0009436. The Daily Mirror also attacked Moore's work (See 0009348) while in contrast extremely favourable reviews appeared in The Observer (See 0009338) and The Jewish Chronicle (See 0009370). The remaining critics seemed to take less polarised stances.)"
0009451
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1928
Date & Collation: (28 Jan)..
Description: Hostile review of exhibition (See 0009446) which must raise furious thoughts in the minds of those responsible for teaching at the Royal College of Art". The best of the drawings are described as "quite ordinary" while the sculpture is seen as "merely lumpy masses bound by clumsy contours"."