Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Lois Orswell, David Smith and Modern Art; with the Lois Orswell-David Smith Correspondence edited by Sarah B. Kianovsky.
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Bib. Number0020071
Lois Orswell, David Smith and Modern Art; with the Lois Orswell-David Smith Correspondence edited by Sarah B. Kianovsky.
Author/EditorCOHN Marjorie B.
PublisherYale University Press
Place PublishedNew Haven and London.
Year2002
Date & Collation388pp.Illus.Bibliog.Index.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationAccompanies exhibition organized by the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Fogg Art Musuem 21 Sept 2002 until 16 Feb 2003. Contains a checklist of the Lois Orswell Collection housed at the Harvard University Art Museums. This includes Henry Moore's Ideas for Sculpture, 1940 drawing and Reclining Figure, 1937 Hopton wood stone which are illustrated. Includes half-a-dozen mentions of Henry Moore, sometimes in relation to Curt Valentin's Buchholz Gallery from which the works were purchased. Lists Henry Moore loans to the exhibitions Twentieth-Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture (Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence,R.I. 26 April-18 May 1947), Twentieth-Century Art in New England (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 6 May-30 June 1948), and Benefit Exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival: The Lois Orswell Collection (Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 8-29 May 1956).