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Beach portrait of artists at play

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Beach portrait of artists at play
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Bib. Number0022379

Beach portrait of artists at play

Author/EditorCOLLINS Ian
Place PublishedNorwich
Year
Date & Collation2012(09 June) 6-7(3 illus)
LanguageEnglish
More InformationArticle highlighting the exhibition of a selection of biographical photographs from The Henry Moore Foundation Archive and Hepworth Archive at the Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, (see 0022371). Collins explores the friendships and rivalries of the group artists holidaying on the Suffolk coast. Notes the importance of the figures both Moore and Hepworth carved from ironstones they found on the beach. Quotes from a 1925 letter Moore wrote to his sister Mary. Two illus including Reclining Figure 1930 ironstone, (LH 85) from the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.