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0009286
Publisher: Barker
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 41pp(2 illus).49 plates.
Description: Book on the appreciation of drawing, illustrated by works of three dozen modern artists, including six by Moore (Plates 39-44) dating between 1928 and 1933.
32-36 On sculptors' drawings and Henry Moore in particular.
Haskell explains his choice of Moore's drawings: Moore young as he is has acquired a unique position for his research his promise and his actual achievement." Moore is seen as a pioneer taking over where Gaudier-Brzeska left off. Description and comment on each drawing reproduced discuss the techniques the logical development and the relation to sculpture. Comment ranges over "drawing for the sake of drawing" to increasing "his repertoire of natural form...to suggest bulk form in the round... Already a certain deformation is creeping in... The whole has dignity solidity repose." Moore's use of wash and cross-section is noted and the drawings are discussed in sculptural terms. "Her legs must therefore support her heavy stone body."
38-41 On carving.
A conversation between Henry Moore and Arnold L. Haskell reprinted from the New English Weekly 5 May 1932 (See 0009323)."
32-36 On sculptors' drawings and Henry Moore in particular.
Haskell explains his choice of Moore's drawings: Moore young as he is has acquired a unique position for his research his promise and his actual achievement." Moore is seen as a pioneer taking over where Gaudier-Brzeska left off. Description and comment on each drawing reproduced discuss the techniques the logical development and the relation to sculpture. Comment ranges over "drawing for the sake of drawing" to increasing "his repertoire of natural form...to suggest bulk form in the round... Already a certain deformation is creeping in... The whole has dignity solidity repose." Moore's use of wash and cross-section is noted and the drawings are discussed in sculptural terms. "Her legs must therefore support her heavy stone body."
38-41 On carving.
A conversation between Henry Moore and Arnold L. Haskell reprinted from the New English Weekly 5 May 1932 (See 0009323)."
0009287
Author/Editor: HAVINDEN Ashley.
Publisher: Studio
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 96pp.Illus.
Description: Published with Studio Publications (New York). How to Do It series, 4. Book on techniques which includes examples of work by 21 artists, with commentary by the author.
90-91(1 illus) Henry Moore.
A full-page illustration of ideas for sculpture depicting fourteen standing figures. The technique employed, the use of pen line over wash, is discussed by Ashley Havinden.
A revised edition was published 1941, reprinted 1945 and 1949, with the Henry Moore content on pages 54-55.
90-91(1 illus) Henry Moore.
A full-page illustration of ideas for sculpture depicting fourteen standing figures. The technique employed, the use of pen line over wash, is discussed by Ashley Havinden.
A revised edition was published 1941, reprinted 1945 and 1949, with the Henry Moore content on pages 54-55.
0009284
Author/Editor: READ Herbert.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 144pp.129 plates.Bibliog.
Description: Plates 37,53,55,90(4 illus) Henry Moore: one Drawing 1931 and two Carvings 1932.Most of the text of this book was originally delivered in the form of lectures. Relates to the October 1933 exhibition at the Mayor Gallery entitled here A Survey of Contemporary Art (See 0009292).
For subsequent editions see 0009203 (1936) 0008458 (1948) 0006843 (1960) and 0005011 (1968)."
For subsequent editions see 0009203 (1936) 0008458 (1948) 0006843 (1960) and 0005011 (1968)."
0009290
Author/Editor: UNDERWOOD Eric G.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: xvi,192pp.48 plates.Bibliog.
Description: Survey from pre-Medieval times to the 20th century. Includes a chapter on Frank Dobson, and a final chapter entitled Today and Tomorrow, which includes Moore.
166-172.Plate 46(1 illus) Henry Moore.
The illustration is Reclining Figure, 1930 Corsehill stone, since lost and probably destroyed. The text outlines the tenets of Unit One, and quotes Herbert Read's affirmation that English sculpture is reborn in the work of Moore. Underwood agrees that Moore heads the modern movement, and briefly discusses the importance of material in Moore's approach to creativity.
166-172.Plate 46(1 illus) Henry Moore.
The illustration is Reclining Figure, 1930 Corsehill stone, since lost and probably destroyed. The text outlines the tenets of Unit One, and quotes Herbert Read's affirmation that English sculpture is reborn in the work of Moore. Underwood agrees that Moore heads the modern movement, and briefly discusses the importance of material in Moore's approach to creativity.
0009285
Publisher: Wilson, H.W.
Place Published: New York
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: xiii,1565pp.
Description: The Art Index. January 1929-September 1932: a cumulative author and subject index to a selected list of fine art periodicals and museum bulletins; edited by Alice M. DOUGAN, Bertha JOEL. First permanent three-year cumulation of The Art Index.
972 Henry Moore: six references.
Art index published quarterly with cumulations from 1929, the latest full volume up to 1986 being Volume 33, November 1984 to October 1985 edited by Bertrun Delli, this having 29 Moore references. Other editors over the years have included Sarah St. John, Margaret Furlong, Mary M. Schmidt, David J. Patten, etc.
972 Henry Moore: six references.
Art index published quarterly with cumulations from 1929, the latest full volume up to 1986 being Volume 33, November 1984 to October 1985 edited by Bertrun Delli, this having 29 Moore references. Other editors over the years have included Sarah St. John, Margaret Furlong, Mary M. Schmidt, David J. Patten, etc.
0009289
Author/Editor: FIERENS Paul.
Publisher: Vigntième Siècle
Place Published: Paris
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 148pp(53 plates).Biog.Bibliog.Text in French.
Description: Also published by Zwemmer (London). XXe Siècle, Nouvelle série, 1. Introduction (which mentions briefly Moore's Mexican influences), followed by plates and biographies in country order.
35-49(4 Moore plates) Angleterre: Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore.
Brief biography, followed by full-page plates of Reclining Woman, 1930 green Hornton stone; Girl, 1931 Ancaster stone; Composition, 1931 Cumberland alabaster; Composition, 1933 walnut wood. The cover features Reclining Figure, 1930 Corsehill stone.
35-49(4 Moore plates) Angleterre: Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore.
Brief biography, followed by full-page plates of Reclining Woman, 1930 green Hornton stone; Girl, 1931 Ancaster stone; Composition, 1931 Cumberland alabaster; Composition, 1933 walnut wood. The cover features Reclining Figure, 1930 Corsehill stone.
0009288
Author/Editor: MARYON Herbert.
Publisher: Pitman
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: xx,260pp.Illus.131 plates(336 figures).
Description: 50,Figures 28,30,31,33,35 Henry Moore.
Photographs of five Carvings 1929-1930, with a paragraph in the chapter 'Carving for its own Sake'. The works are related to the sculptural forms of a range of mountains where undoubtedly the character of the stone has suggested the design and treatment"."
Photographs of five Carvings 1929-1930, with a paragraph in the chapter 'Carving for its own Sake'. The works are related to the sculptural forms of a range of mountains where undoubtedly the character of the stone has suggested the design and treatment"."
0020571
Publisher: Heaton Review
Place Published: Bradford
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: page 17 (1 illus)
Description: Full-page photograph of Girl, 1931 Ancaster stone (LH 109), in a series produced by Lund Humphries and edited by George G. HOPKINSON. Subtitled A Northern Miscellany of Art and Literature. See also 0009277. List mention within Foreword by Sir Michael SADLER.
0009299
Author/Editor: RUTTER Frank.
Publisher: Sunday Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (12 Nov)..
Description: Review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009293). Rutter is suspicious of such high praise by Epstein, from whom he quotes (See 0009327). Sees Moore as an accomplished carver" but finds his shapes "most unpleasing"."
0009298
Author/Editor: NASH Paul.
Publisher: The Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (12 June)..
Description: Letter to the editor announcing the formation of Unit One, one of whose members is Henry Moore.
0009304
Author/Editor: MILLER Alec.
Publisher: Discovery
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (Sept) 287-291(1 Moore illus).
Description: Contemporary design, 3. Modern sculpture is reacting against the traditions of the 19th century which reached a watershed with Rodin, now much out of favour. Carving as opposed to modelling is discussed; and young sculptors are drawing a vitality from non-Classical sources. Moore is mentioned very briefly and there is an illustration of Reclining Woman, 1930 green Hornton stone.
0009310
Author/Editor: CRANKSHAW Edward.
Publisher: Week-End Review
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (29 April)..
Description: Includes a review of Recent Paintings by English, French and German Artists at the new Mayor Gallery (See 0009295). Passing mention of Henry Moore who forms an unassailable alliance with his wood and stone"."
0009309
Author/Editor: RAVERAT G.
Publisher: Time and Tide
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (6 May)..
Description: Note on new Mayor Gallery (See 0009295), with passing mention of Moore: the sculpture by Henry Moore is the real thing.""
0009296
Publisher: Anglo German Club
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (14 Dec)-1934(5 Jan).8pp.Foreword by Arthur LETT-HAINES, J.R.J.MACNAMARA.
Description: Exhibition of works by young British artists following the success of the Hamburg exhibition (See 0010505). List of 76 works by 36 artists.
6 Henry Moore (Unit 1) Exhibits 37-40: two carvings and two drawings.
6 Henry Moore (Unit 1) Exhibits 37-40: two carvings and two drawings.
0009302
Author/Editor: READ Herbert.
Publisher: Architectural Review
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (Oct) 125-128(1 Moore illus).
Description: Description of the Group and its members with an illustration of Mother and Child, 1932 green Hornton stone. The two sculptor members Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth both represent with the same integrity that development in sculpture which is at once a return to the technical virtues of direct carving and an advance into the experimental field of abstraction."
Reprinted in Unit One Mayor Gallery 1984 (See 0000746)."
Reprinted in Unit One Mayor Gallery 1984 (See 0000746)."
0009308
Author/Editor: STOKES Adrian.
Publisher: Spectator
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (10 Nov) 661.
Description: Review of Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009293). There are several works in this exhibition of a great and novel loveliness." Stokes also admired the "admixture of moulding and carving" and the "plastic aim behind his conception of carving".
Reprinted in The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes (See 0002671)."
Reprinted in The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes (See 0002671)."
0009300
Publisher: Apollo
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (Dec) 389.
Description: Brief review of 0009293, seeing unpleasing association displeasing form and a serious misuse of material"."
0009305
Author/Editor: OSBORNE Harold.
Publisher: Granta
Place Published: Cambridge
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (31 May)..
Description: Letter proposing a University society for the study and enjoyment of the plastic arts, and announcing an October term Valenza Gallery exhibition, listing Henry Moore as one of the participants.
0009297
Publisher: The Scotsman
Place Published: Edinburgh
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (20 April)..
Description: Short review of the first exhibition at the Mayor Gallery, with a paragraph on Henry Moore: The small carvings of Henry Moore are fascinating in their shapes. The hands itch to touch them to take them up and caress them. They are of course quite meaningless...""
0009303
Author/Editor: GRIGSON Geoffrey.
Publisher: Bookman
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (Nov) 85 106(1 illus).
Description: Art Now, the book (See 0009284) and exhibition at the Mayor Gallery (See 0009292), with a paragraph on Moore at the Leicester Galleries (See 0009293): intensely individual and at its best universal.""
0009301
Publisher: Architectural Design and Construction
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (Nov) 4(1) 32-33.
Description: Includes a passing note on Moore's Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009293): this gifted artist's work.""
0009307
Author/Editor: HASKELL Arnold L.
Publisher: New English Weekly
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (27 April)..
Description: Short exhibition review (See 0009295), with passing mention of Henry Moore's magnificent Reclining Women in green Hornton stone and three new wood carvings"."
0009306
Author/Editor: NASH Paul.
Publisher: Listener
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: (5 July) 14-16(1 Moore illus).
Description: Note on the formation and concept of Unit One; with a photograph of Composition, 1933 walnut wood.
Reprinted in Unit One, Mayor Gallery, 1984 (See 0000746).
Reprinted in Unit One, Mayor Gallery, 1984 (See 0000746).
0022478
Publisher: The Western Morning News and Daily Gazette
Place Published: Plymouth
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 1933 (30 June)
Description: Expression of interest in the group of artists just formed in London"; highlights Moore as having the potential be the finest sculptor we have ever had in England."