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Issue 7 of the journal Poetry London. Cover illustration is a reproduction of The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for Poetry (HMF 2063). Two plates included between pages 32 and 33 reproduce shelter drawings with a poem by Anne Ridler on the reverse: Group of Shelterers During an Air Raid (HMF 1808), and Two Figures Sharing the same Green Blanket (HMF 1705). HMF 1705 is reproduced without Moore's notes which appear above the drawing; HMF 1808 is captioned "Group of Figures in Underground Shelter".
Seven other issues of Poetry London have Moore drawings on the cover: issues 8 (0008437), 11 (0008438), 12 (0008439), 13 (0008440), 14 (0008441), 15 (0008442), and 16 (0008443).
Issues 1-23 of Poetry London were reprinted in five volumes in 1970 (0004725); issue 7 is in volume 2.
Publication with features, review and promoting exhibitions. 42-47 Henry Moore Family Collection article detailing Mary Moore's personal recollections of her fathers practice and two presentations of Moore's work: Ideas for Sculpture 2008 London and Works on Paper from the Henry Moore Family Collection 2010 Zurich. Illus of Moore in his maquette studio 1968; Moore working on a lithograph1973; Henry and Mary Moore in the Top studio 1951; Sleeping Shelterer 1940-41 (HFM 1694); Two Sleepers 1941 (HMF 1853); Shelter Scene: Two Seated Figures 1941 (HMF 1824). Reference to Moore's writing in The Listener 1937; teaching how to see in a sculptural and three dimensional way; Mary Moore's childhood games; holidays in Broadstairs, Kent; Henry Moore photographing his own work; the development of modern communication on the world view of sculpture; Zwemmer's bookshop; British Museum and Musée de L'Homme; and Moore's collection of natural objects and pebbles, books, postcards and sketch books. Mary MOORE writes about her father's internalisation of visual imagery, the idea that he took inspiration from these pebbles is misleading rather they confirmed his own inner vocabulary.
List of exhibitions (pp.113-133) includes four solo and one group exhibition for Henry Moore, illus. with an image of Chairback Relief. Shows listed are: Henry Moore (Zentrum Paul Klee), Figure and Architecture: Henry Moore in the 1950s (Leeds Art Gallery Collections), Henry Moore: Back to a Land (Yorkshire Sculpture Park), Henry Moore: Arte en la Calle (La Caixa), and Arche Noah: Uber Tier und Mensch in der Kunst (Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U).
Article publicising the exhibition Henry Moore: Drawing in the Dark at St Albans Museum and Gallery 16 December 2022 - 16 April 2023 showcasing Moore's drawings of Miners during WWII.
Outllining the original commission from the War Artists' Advisory Commission, it describes how Moore produced his drawings and the conditions he experienced.
Reference to the book published in connection with the exhibition, "Drawing in the Dark: Henry Moore's Coalming Commission" by Chris Owen.
2 Moore illus:
Pit Boys at Pithead, 1942 (HMF 1985) and Four Studies of Miners at the Coalface, 1942.(HMF 2000a)