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0015946
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 11pp.
Description: Typed information sheet from 6 Fitzroy Street, London W1. Moore's name appears in a four-page membership list, and two Moore books are in a checklist of the library's holdings.
0022079
Publisher: British Film Academy
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 5pp.illus
Description: Internet print of image purchased from eBay, including original listing. Photo, dated 29 May 1949, caption reads; Sir Laurence Olivier receiving his award from Sir Michael Balcom at the Odeon Theatre, London, for his film Hamlet" which was adjudged the best film from any source British or foreign. Sir Laurence received three trophies Best Film and Best Actor Oscars from the American Film Academy and the British Film Academy's award a bronze figure (seen foreground) by the sculptor Henry Moore. One Moore illus shows Seated Figure 1949 bronze (LH 271). See 0008360 for details of Moore's commission.
0013534
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 2pp.Typewriter script.Text by Herbert READ.
Description: British Council typescript in English of the introduction which appeared in catalogues of the 1949-1952 exhibition in Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Berne, Athens, Sweden (See 0008026, etc).
0013530
Author/Editor: RAMSDEN E.H.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place Published: London, New York & Toronto
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: x,42pp.24 plates.Bibliog.
Description: Revised edition of essay first published 1940 (See 0013511).
21-22,Plate 14(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Figure 1937, bird's eye marble, and short text on Moore's abstract, anthropomorphic forms. Notes his humanity, respect for materials and use of organic and primitive forms.
0013536
Author/Editor: BURKE Joseph.
Publisher: Art and Design
Place Published: Sydney
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 1 1949 32-35(1 Moore illus).
Description: Since the end of the war £140,000 has been spent by the Felton Bequest on the purchase of works of art for the National Gallery of Victoria. Alfred Felton died in 1904. Includes a photograph and passing mention of Family Group, 1947 bronze.
This issue of Art and Design also includes an article by Max DUPAIN on Douglas Glass: photographer, on pages 49-51, but without reference to his Moore photoportrait.
0013533
Publisher: U.N.E.S.C.O.
Place Published: Paris
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 72pp.Illus.Texts.
Description: Copyright 1949 by Les Editions de la Connaissance (Brussels) and Unesco (Paris). The text of this booklet appeared originally in French as an issue of the Belgian art/review, Les Arts Plastiques.
44-47,71 Arthur KNIGHT. Art films in America (Includes a paragraph on 0008799 prepared by James Johnson Sweeney for the American-British Art Center. There is a photograph of The Bride, 1939-1940 lead and wire).
Out of Chaos (See 0008950) is listed as a 1945 film on page 64, produced by Sydney Box. Sir K. Clark describes how artists were chosen to depict the history of the war. Anthony Gross Paul Nash Henry Moore Stanley Spencer are shown at work during the bombardments". (Graham Sutherland also appears and Eric Newton)."
0013532
Publisher: Arts Council of Great Britain
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: .16pp.Illus.Introduction by Colin ANDERSON.
Description: 56 works. Exhibit 32 Henry Moore: one Drawing.
0013531
Publisher: Roland, Browse and Delbanco
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (April).8pp.Introduction.
Description: Follows 1946 exhibition Modern Sculpture with a Background of Old Master Drawings. List of 21+33 works.
Exhibits 25-26 Henry Moore: two 1931 Drawings.
0009485
Publisher: Paleis voor Schone Kunsten
Place Published: Brussels
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (Oct).40pp(23 illus).Biog.Introduction by Herbert READ.Text in Dutch.
Description: Dutch edition of 0008026.
0009484
Author/Editor: LEE Kathryn Dean., BURCHWOOD Katharine Tyler.
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
Place Published: New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: xxiii,392pp.Illus.208 plates.Bibliog.
Description: an introduction to ancient medieval and modern art with emphasis upon brevity clarity and readability of text."
357Plate 187(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Reclining Figure 1935-1936 elm wood and passing mention in a short section: Expressionism in Germany and England."
0019750
Publisher: Edinburgh University
Place Published: Edinburgh
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (May).12pp.Biog.Foreword.Adverts.
Description: Arranged by the Edinburgh University Art Society in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain. List of 45 works by 34 artists.
Exhibits 20-21 Henry Moore: two Drawings lent by Sir Kenneth Clark.
0009486
Author/Editor: PANTALEONI Gaetano.
Publisher: Il Caffè
Place Published: Milan
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (15 Oct-15 Dec)..Text in Italian.
Description: The commonplace transformed into stone in Moore's art, surprising for its breadth of vision and use of nature.
0021340
Author/Editor: JOHNSTON Eric.
Publisher: Fortune
Place Published: New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (February) 117 (1 illus)
Description: Article in American periodical, outlines the problems faced by Europe's capitalists". One Moore illus: Page 117: At the Coal Face: Miner Pushing Tub 1942 drawing (HMF 1991) is compared to an 1871 artwork with the same title to illustrate "virtually no improvements in methods or machinery" in two generations of workers."
0003667
Author/Editor: SEYMOUR Charles Jr.
Publisher: American University Press
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: viii,86pp.Illus.
Description: For description see 1969 reprint 0004864.
0008027
Publisher: Musée d'Art Moderne
Place Published: Paris
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: .36pp(24 illus).Biog.Introduction by Herbert READ.Text in French.
Description: British Council exhibition. Includes three statements by Henry Moore printed inside the front cover. 53 Sculptures 1923-1949, 44 Drawings 1931-1948 and 11 photographs of Sculpture 1932-1948. Essentially the same exhibition and catalogue as for Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Berne, Athens and Stockholm 1949-1952.
0003671
Publisher: Buchholz Gallery
Place Published: New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (26 Sept-14 Oct).8pp.Illus.
Description: 45 works by 27 artists, plus drawings and watercolours.
Exhibits 37-39 Henry Moore: three Sculptures 1931-1939.
0008329
Author/Editor: GAMULIN Grga.
Publisher: Umetnost
Place Published: Belgrade
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 1 1949 10-23(1 Moore illus).Text in Serbo-Croatian.
Description: Review critical of decadent bourgeois art at Venice (See 0008492), mentioning the inhuman sculpture of Henry Moore. The photograph is of Reclining Figure, 1929 alabaster.
0008335
Publisher: Batsford
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: xii,244pp.Illus.Plates.
Description: Plate 21(1 illus) Henry Moore: Pit Boys at Pithead, 1942 drawing.
Reproduction from a drawing to illustrated section of literary extracts on the theme of Work.
0008341
Publisher: Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund
Place Published: Zürich
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 192pp.Illus.Text in German.
Description: Anthology of photographs, texts, works of art on the Mother and Child theme, edited by Werner BISCHOF.
34(1 illus) Henry Moore: one sculpture.
0008347
Publisher: Art Gallery of Toronto
Place Published: Toronto
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (Nov-Dec)..pp.Introduction by A.F.BLUNT.
Description: Includes three Henry Moore drawings. Blunt describes Moore as the most inventive of all those exhibiting. The drawings contain highly literary dream-like content" treated in a classical and restrained manner."
0008353
Publisher: Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
Place Published: Venice
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (Sept).36pp.Illus.Biog.Text by Giuseppe MARCHIORI, in Italian.
Description: 20 works by 13 sculptors in the Giardino del Palazzo Venier dei Leoni.
26-27(1 illus) Henry Moore: Reclining Figure, 1938 bronze.
0008370
Author/Editor: WELLES Benjamin.
Publisher: New York Times
Place Published: New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (29 April)..
Description: Report in American press of Munnings' outburst, noting references to Moore.
0008376
Publisher: Yorkshire Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (13 May)..
Description: Report containing text of an open letter addressed to Picasso and Matisse, and signed by Henry Moore and eight other important art world people. The letter points out the humiliation felt by the signatories at Munnings' failure to observe the rules of courtesy.
0008345
Publisher: Leicester Galleries
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: (Jan).8pp.
Description: Exhibition 899. Small-format catalogue, cover title The London Group, listing 66 exhibits by 66 artists.
Exhibit 65 Henry Moore: one bronze.