Henry Moore Back to a Land

0023191 Yorkshire Sculpture Park;Henry Moore: Back to a Land; Wakefield Henry Moore Back to a Land Yorkshire Sculpture Park Wakefield Booklet to accompany exhibition of the same name, detailing works in the galleries and project space. Gallery One celebrates the range and scope of Moore's practice including writing on Moore's techniques, reference to and illus of: Working Model for Reclining Figure: Internal/External Form 1951 bronze (LH 298); Reclining Figure: Angles 1979 plaster (LH 675); Head: Cross-Hatch 1961 bronze (LH 492). Contribution by Mary MOORE. Gallery Two includes reference to Moore's earliest sculptures in stone sourced from British quarries; works on paper that fed into his ideas on sculpture; elephant skull drawings reflecting landscape; Illus of Mother and Child 1978 stalactite (LH 754); Studies of Bones, Shell and Mushroom 1932 (HMF 947); Shipwreck 1973 lithograph (CGM 374); Elephant Skull, Plate XVI 1970 etching (CGM 129); Gallery Three includes reference to Moore's organic approach to making; Moore's lithographs in response to poetry by W.H. Auden; Stonehenge drawings and lithographs; Illus of Reclining Figure: Holes 1976-78 elmwood (LH 657); Stonehenge XI 1973 lithograph (CGM 218); Windswept Landscape 1973 lithograph (CGM 245) and Moore at Brimham Rocks 1956. The Project Space displays artefacts and images that reveal particular aspects off Moore's life and career. Illus of Moore working in his maquette studio c. 1969; Shelter Drawing 1940 (HMF 1731); Coalminer carrying a lamp 1942 (HMF 1986);See also: 0024327