Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
African Art: the years since 1920.
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Bib. Number0009846
African Art: the years since 1920.
Author/EditorMOUNT Marshall Ward.
PublisherIndiana University Press
Place PublishedBloomington, Ind.
Year1973
Date & Collationxviii,236pp.Illus.Bibliog.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationPublished in Britain by David and Charles. Republished by DaCapo Press (New York) 1989. In a text on page 96 on Gregory Maloba, the author implies that Henry Moore visited East Africa. This is clarified in a letter from Professor Maloba to the Editor of this Bibliography: in 1940 the then Governor of Kenya Sir Henry Moore and his wife during a visit to where I was St. Mary's School Yala saw and were much impressed with my clay models. As a result Lady Moore a co-graduate of Mrs Margaret Trowell's at the Slade School London very kindly gave me a personal bursary to go and study under Mrs Trowell in Kampala Uganda. However by the end of the 1940s the English sculptor Henry Moore saw photographs of my work and his favourable comments which followed were among those instrumental in winning me a British Council scholarship for further study in England. I was profoundly touched by this as well as with an audience he gave me at his home at the end of my course in 1950...my humble and very sincere admiration of Henry Moore as one whose spirit and attitude has inspired many of us in the world while his individual style and ability will remain among the highest and unimitable.""