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0023510
Publisher: The Devon and Exeter Gazette
Place Published: Exeter
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: 1931 (15 April)
Description: Ridicule at Moore's exhibition of works at Leicester Galleries; "To me it is inexplicable how anyone can find real beauty in these crude mis-shapen images.... Comparison to troglodyte man". No illus.
0020424
Author/Editor: FURST Herbert.
Publisher: Apollo
Place Published: London.
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (Dec) 343-344.
Description: Includes a short review of Young British Artists at the Lefevre Gallery. Frances Hodgkins, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, John Aldridge, David Jones, and Henry Moore. Mr Henry Moore's drawings... are most entertaining and this being so I cannot help thinking that sculpture is not the right medium for his distorted carvings... they take upon themselves an air of humorless ponderosity"."
0009356
Publisher: South Wales Echo and Evening Express
Place Published: Cardiff
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (15 April)..
Description: Brief text on crude mis-shapen images" at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009327) which also appeared in several other provincial newspapers of 15 April 1931."
0009362
Publisher: Church Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (17 April)..
Description: 27-line note on the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). Their beauty...is in their vivid dynamic assault upon the emotions.""
0009374
Publisher: Leeds Mercury
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (20 Aug)..
Description: Review of first exhibition arranged by the newly formed Yorkshire Group of Artists at the Cartwright Hall, Bradford (See 0009330). Henry Moore whose sculpture was recently the cause of great controversy is exhibiting four drawings which are certain to cause some disturbance to the conventional mind.""
0009391
Publisher: London Mercury
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (May)..
Description: Short review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). With an almost scientific aloofness he concentrates on the rhythms of shapes and in order to achieve these rhythms he is prepared to distort natural shapes to any extent.""
0009349
Publisher: Daily Sketch
Place Published: Manchester
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of Girl with Clasped Hands, 1930 Cumberland alabaster: one of the many strange figures" at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009327)."
0009355
Publisher: Leeds Mercury
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (15 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Mother and Child, 1930 Ham Hill stone, and reported comment from Douglas S. Andrews, Principal of Leeds College of Art. The feature follows a photograph in the 14 April 1931 issue of Reclining Figure, 1929 brown Hornton stone under the caption 'Is this beautiful?'. Correspondence for and against Moore appears in the Leeds Mercury for 17, 18 and 22 April 1931.
0009372
Publisher: Age
Place Published: Melbourne
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (23 May)..
Description: Review of the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327): a sculptor has arisen who out-Epsteins Epstein in the variety of contortions abrasions and contusions which are inflicted upon the human form...although Mr Moore's conceptions can please very few eyes at present they might well make good lockup investments.""
0009359
Publisher: Glasgow Herald
Place Published: Glasgow
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (16 April)..
Description: Brief summary of conflicting critical comment on the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327).
0009365
Publisher: Yorkshire Weekly Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (18 April)..(2 illus).
Description: Comment on the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327), with remarks from D.S. Andrews, Principal of Leeds College of Art, and others: not merely clever but showing original thought and originality of treatment. There was power in the stone.""
0009394
Author/Editor: BURY Adrian.
Publisher: Saturday Review
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (25 April)..
Description: Includes a short and disapproving review of the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327): we refuse to regard Mr Moore as important because his mind far from being inventive and imaginative is sterile and simple to the point of negation. Such sculpture is trying to lead us away from civilization... The sort of sculpture like the drawings exhibited in the same room is far too easy to do given an arrogant contempt for European tradition...""
0009347
Publisher: Daily Herald
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of Mother and Child, 1930 Ham Hill stone, an illustration which appears in several newspapers of this date: e.g. Birmingham Daily Mail, Liverpool Post and Mercury.
0009370
Publisher: Jewish Chronicle
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (1 May)..Text initialled K.
Description: Endorses Epstein's introduction in reviewing the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 00009327), and stresses Moore's youth: every line and plane is so full of an intense mental activity as to leave us in no doubt that some new and unimaginably richer product will follow.""
0009376
Publisher: Express and Star
Place Published: Wolverhampton
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (25 Nov)..(1 Moore illus).Text initialled U.U.
Description: The author has been collecting photographs which may have value in fifty years, for by that time the statues which they represent will have been smashed by an outraged public". Includes a photograph of Moore's Mother and Child 1930 Ancaster stone."
0009382
Publisher: Architectural Review
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (June)..
Description: Brief answers by Henry Moore to three questions on submission, purpose and possible reform of the Royal Academy of Arts. The sculpture at the R.A. is of an even lower standard than the painting; when it is not incompetent it is purely commercial... It is impossible to expect the R.A. to judge with understanding or sympathy the work of artists more alive to contemporary growths and movements...""
0009348
Author/Editor: ANDREW Merry.
Publisher: Daily Mirror
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(3 illus).
Description: Caustic review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327) which surpasses in repulsiveness even that of Mr Epstein". The exhibits are described as "hideous and revolting...mineral monstrosities...suffering from elephantiasis and face-ache". See also 0009363."
0009354
Publisher: Bulletin and Scots Pictorial
Place Published: Glasgow
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (15 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of a strange piece of work" at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009327): Mother and Child 1931 Cumberland alabaster."
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).
0009366
Publisher: Daily Mail
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (21 April)..Text initialled P.J.K.
Description: Short review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327), seen as unexpectedly new, and analogous with Primitive art.
0009383
Author/Editor: GORDON-STABLES Louise.
Publisher: Art News
Place Published: New York
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (9 May)..
Description: Includes a short review of Moore's Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). Finds Epstein's introduction illogical and noncommittal, and Moore's materials unpleasant in colour and surface, except for his use of concrete: the most acceptable work is to be found in the masks and in the heads of low relief where the formalism adopted offends less than the deliberate distortion practised in the figures in the round.""
0009389
Author/Editor: READ Herbert.
Publisher: Kunstblatt
Place Published: Berlin
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (June) 167-170(4 illus).Text in German.
Description: Short text on Moore, and one or two other sculptors working in England at the time. Includes a brief outline of Moore's early career, and photographs of four carvings 1927-1931.
0009395
Publisher: Sketch
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (22 April) 94(5 illus).
Description: Photographs of five sculptures from the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327), with the caption quoting Epstein's Before these works I ponder in silence..."."
0009352
Publisher: Yorkshire Observer
Place Published: Bradford
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (14 April)..(3 illus).
Description: Review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327). Similar text to that appearing in the Sheffield Independent, 14 April 1931 (See 0009351) and Birmingham Gazette, 14 April 1931 (See 0009346).