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0007087
Author/Editor: TAYLOR Alfred.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1959
Date & Collation: (5 Feb)..
Description: Public response to Falling Warrior, 1956-1957 bronze on display at Huddersfield Art Gallery. Comment continued in Yorkshire newspapers through 11 February 1959, mostly unfavourable.
0012364
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (13 Aug)..
Description: The Henry Moore Foundation has given £10000 to the Yorkshire Museum at York to be used for displaying sculptures from St. Mary's Abbey, part of which lies under the museum.
0012275
Author/Editor: THORPE John.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (12 Jan)..(1 illus).
Description: Speculates that Leeds could benefit from the terms of Moore's will. The YEP has been told by contacts in London and Leeds that trustees of the Henry Moore Foundation are to visit Leeds later this month and will be given the red carpet treatment by councillors.""
0012355
Author/Editor: THORPE John.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (28 July)..
Description: Henry Moore Sculpture Trust is to set up its first headquarters in the former Jacob Kramer building. The £400,000 centre was reported in other British newspapers on 30 July 1987.
0005174
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: (18 July)..(1 illus).
Description: Castleford Public Library mounted a small display in honour of Moore's 70th birthday (See 0005062).
0002845
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: (Sept 9)..
Description: Brief news note on gift of seven works up to value of £250,000 to be housed in new Leeds City Art Gallery.
0009149
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1938
Date & Collation: (12 Nov)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph, in the Buff Edition of Y.E.P., of Reclining Figure, 1936 elm wood, captioned An unusual carving in elm by Henry Moore at the West Riding Artists' Exhibition which opened at Wakefield today"."
0009112
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1939
Date & Collation: (27 Jan)..(6 illus).
Description: Photographs of work from annual Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition in Leeds Art Gallery, including Moore's Figure, 1937 bird's eye marble.
0005173
Author/Editor: FRANCIS Sue.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: (17 July)..(1 illus).
Description: Short note on the Tate Gallery exhibition (See 0005063), with special mention of the works from Yorkshire collections on display.
Similar feature appeared in Doncaster Evening Post, 18 July 1968.
Similar feature appeared in Doncaster Evening Post, 18 July 1968.
0007369
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1957
Date & Collation: (19 Jan)..
Description: Reclining Figure: Festival, 1951 bronze which has been at Temple Newsam for five years is to be removed. Five readers write with relief at the departure of the monstrosity" including a humorous verse by Edith SIMPSON under the heading Last Word which begins "We would not speed upon its way"."
0005427
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: (5 May)..(3 illus).
Description: Photographs of three Henry Moore bronzes making up the Zoological Society's Stamford Raffles Award: Animal Form, 1959 bronze; Maquette for Animal Head, 1956 bronze; Bird, 1955 bronze.
0005402
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: (17 Feb)..(1 illus).
Description: News note that Locking Piece, 1963-1964 bronze would stand outside the British Pavilion at forthcoming Expo 67 (See 0005362).
0005405
Author/Editor: WILKINSON Ronald.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: (27 Feb)..(1 illus).
Description: Popular note on Moore's career, recording his gift to the Tate Gallery.
0007371
Author/Editor: MUSGRAVE Ernest I.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1957
Date & Collation: (24 Jan)..(1 illus).
Description: The Director of Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam House replies to the aggressive opposition to Reclining Figure: Festival, 1951 bronze. Moore's reputation should have produced tolerance and sympathy from his compatriots. True understanding depends on a specialised knowledge. Leeds will lose a great work of art, and his critics should have been less prejudiced. In the 15 March 1957 Yorkshire Post a short letter was published from Terry Frost, Harry Thubron, Eric Atkinson and David Lewis supporting Musgrave's positive attitude in seeking to acquire another Moore as a replacement.
0007377
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1957
Date & Collation: (7 May)..
Description: Short news report on the controversy over Moore's Wellington exhibition (See 0007581), incorporating public comment.
0003200
Author/Editor: STRAWE J.T.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1977
Date & Collation: (25 July)..(2 illus).
Description: Letter describing Moore's work as the biggest cultural bluff of the century". Attacks the "obscure ugliness that passes for modern art" and claims that the sculptor "has never created anything of beauty in his entire career". Resulted in follow-up letters for and against in subsequent issues."
0018218
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1998
Date & Collation: (25 June)..(1 illus).
Description: Yvette Cooper, Pontefract and Castleford MP, with a Moore bronze. In My Favourite Things feature on Yorkshire Television's Tonight programme, screened 7 July 1998.
0015044
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1992
Date & Collation: (18 March)..(1 illus).
Description: Note critical of the fact that the briefing for a new sculpture gallery and study centre in Leeds was held in London at the Art Club in Dover Street.
0009428
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (28 Jan)..
Description: Review of second annual Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery, with a paragraph on Moore. Henry Moore's drawing and two pieces of sculpture may give the visitor a moment of perplexity. The German robustness and the simplicity of his pieces in cement and bronze may be glaringly unconventional to the lay eye but both have a balance which cannot be overlooked.""
0015080
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1992
Date & Collation: (24 April)..
Description: Note that the young Moore used Henry or Hal S. Moore rather than Henry. (This note would have been prompted by a letter of inquiry from Alexander Davis to the Editor of the Yorkshire Post for any information on Moore's public commission when he was a student at Leeds School of Art in 1919-1921 (See 0009430)).
0005768
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1966
Date & Collation: (30 Nov)..(1 illus).
Description: Present owner of Moore's birthplace, Harold Higgins of 30 Roundhill Road, Castleford, has erected a plaque by the front door: Henry Moore sculptor born in this house 30th July 1898.""
0001177
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1983
Date & Collation: (13 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Brief news note on presentation to Moore by Mexican government at Much Hadham of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, created in 1933 to reward foreigners for extraordinary services rendered to México and to humanity.
0018992
Author/Editor: YORK Alan.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1999
Date & Collation: (11 Aug)..(3 illus).
Description: A national monument is to be created on the site of Henry Moore's birthplace in Castleford.. This will include sculptural elements information on Moore new pavement walls seats plants". See also 0019038."
0001110
Author/Editor: SHELDON Andrew.
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1983
Date & Collation: (15 Jan)..(1 illus).
Description: Complaints, and explanation, on not being allowed to handle Moore exhibits at Leeds (See 0001471).