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0008905
Publisher: St. Matthew's Church
Place Published: Northampton
Year: 1944
Date & Collation: 4pp.
Description: Address given by the Vicar on the Sunday morning before the unveiling and dedication of the statue.
(Outlines conversations with Henry Moore, religious aspects of the sculpture and thought put into the work. Printed by request").
Address by Sir Kenneth CLARK K.C.B.
(Speech at unveiling importance of sculptor working in church in contemporary mode. Shows the fundamental beauty of the figure and its harmony of forms. "Reprinted from S. Matthew's magazine". A 2pp typescript version appears on MOMA Artists Scrapbooks (See 0010471) also inscribed Reprinted from S. Matthew's Magazine). See also 0008936."
(Outlines conversations with Henry Moore, religious aspects of the sculpture and thought put into the work. Printed by request").
Address by Sir Kenneth CLARK K.C.B.
(Speech at unveiling importance of sculptor working in church in contemporary mode. Shows the fundamental beauty of the figure and its harmony of forms. "Reprinted from S. Matthew's magazine". A 2pp typescript version appears on MOMA Artists Scrapbooks (See 0010471) also inscribed Reprinted from S. Matthew's Magazine). See also 0008936."
0008961
Publisher: St. Matthew's Church
Place Published: Northampton
Year: 1943
Date & Collation: 16pp.4 plates.
Description: 7-9 Madonna and Child Statue.
Brochure in which it is announced that Henry Moore's statue will be installed at the Jubilee Festival. Includes Moore's text describing his initial lack of enthusiasm for the commission, and the eventual choice of the Mother and Child motif. To him the work expresses a quiet dignity and gentleness" and will be slightly larger than life size in order to relate to the setting. Reprinted in Henry Moore on Sculpture (See 0005627)."
Brochure in which it is announced that Henry Moore's statue will be installed at the Jubilee Festival. Includes Moore's text describing his initial lack of enthusiasm for the commission, and the eventual choice of the Mother and Child motif. To him the work expresses a quiet dignity and gentleness" and will be slightly larger than life size in order to relate to the setting. Reprinted in Henry Moore on Sculpture (See 0005627)."
0008906
Publisher: St. Matthew's Church
Place Published: Northampton
Year: 1944
Date & Collation: 6pp folder.
Description: Saturday 19th February 1944 at 2.30pm unveiling programme of religious texts, plus: Standing beside the statue the sculptor Henry Moore Esquire shall address Sir Kenneth Clark Director of the National Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Pictures and say: Sir we ask you to unveil this statue. Then shall Sir Kenneth Clark unveil the statue and speak to the people.""
0024056
Author/Editor: MORTON J. I.
Publisher: St. Matthew's Church
Place Published: Northampton
Year: 1993
Date & Collation: 16pp.illus.
Description:
A guide to St. Matthew's Church, Northampton. p.3 mentions Walter Hussey's acquisition of works of modern art for the church, including Moore's Madonna and Child 1943-44 (LH 226). pp.14-15 deals with the Lady Chapel, and mentions that the Madonna and Child is in this part of the church, describing it as perhaps "the finest flowering of his gift". There is a line drawing of the work, and a mention of a separate leaflet which deals specifically with the work.