The Life of Henry Moore.

0000182 MOORE Henry;Letters (Life of Henry Moore);Moore;Childhood; Castleford; Adel Rock; Winchester; Narayana and Bhataryan; Royal College of Art; British Museum; Norfolk; Wembley; Royal College of Art; Giotto; Masaccio; Teaching; West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone; Reclining Figure, 1929 brown Hornton stone; Venice Biennale 1930.; Leicester Galleries; Kent; Seven and Five Society; Unit One; Altamira Caves; Spanish Civil War; Artists International Association; Stringed Figures; Chelsea School of Art; Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone; Reclining Figure, 1939 elm wood; Coal Mine Drawings; Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone; Out of Chaos; Family Groups; Memorial Figure, 1945-1946 Hornton stone; Reclining Figure, 1945-1946 elm wood; Three Standing Figures, 1947-1948 Darley Dale stone The Life of Henry Moore. Mr Roger Berthoud Faber and Faber London Authorised biography produced from conversations with the artist and others, from letters, press cuttings and other publications. Includes quotations by Moore, some previously unpublished (including letters). Prelude and 19 chapters in chronological sequence.
1. Childhood and School 1898-1916.
Parents, Castleford, abattoir, coal-mining, Sunday school story about Michelangelo, massaging his mother's back, tip cat, Adel Rock, Castleford Secondary School and headmaster T. R. Dawes, Alice Gostick, early drawings and carvings.
2. Briefly to War 1917 to Early 1919.
First visit to London to enlist, training in Winchester, front line trenches in France, letters home, mustard-gas poisoning, convalescence and retraining as bayonet instructor and return to teaching in Castleford.
3. Art Student in Leeds 1919-1921.
Friendship with Raymond Coxon, school routines, Barbara Hepworth and others, Narayana and Bhataryan, Michael Sadler, Roger Fry.
4. Student in London and Abroad 1921-1925.
Royal College of Art, British Museum, first Mothers and Childs, lodgings with Raymond Coxon, Paris, family move to Norfolk and death of his father, influence of Leon Underwood, discovery of Gaudier, support by William Rothenstein, Wembley carvings, teaching at the Royal College of Art part-time, Paris again and Italy travelling scholarship: Giotto, Masaccio and emotional strain.
5. Public Débuts and Teaching 1925-1928.
First exhibition and reclining figures, Jacob Epstein, early carvings, first solo exhibition 1928 and its reviews, West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone and two jardinières.
6. Marriage and a Masterpiece 1929-1931.
Irina Radetzky, Hampstead, Leeds Reclining Figure, 1929 brown Hornton stone, Venice Biennale 1930., Royal College of Art resignation, reviews of Leicester Galleries exhibition, Herbert Read, Kent cottage.
7. Hampstead, Chelsea and Kent 1931-1936.
Moore at the centre of artistic activity: Seven and Five Society, Unit One; Read's 1934 book (See 0009257); visit to Altamira Caves 1934; Jack Hepworth: the first of Moore's many assistants, followed by Bernard Meadows; Moore as photographer of his work; first American contacts and the 1935-1936 elmwood reclining figures.
8. Surrealism, Constructivism and Socialism 1936-1939.
Republican sympathies in Spanish Civil War. Artists International Association exhibitions and political activities, ISE exhibition 1936, abstraction and Moore's texts in the Painter's Object (See 0009196) and Circle (See 0009178), Stringed Figures, part-time teaching at Chelsea School of Art, Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone, beginning of friendship with K. Clark, Reclining Figure, 1939 elm wood,
9. Shelter Drawings and the Northampton _Madonna 1940-1944.
Moore's reputation was established, teaching ended at Chelsea School of Art, shelter drawings, studio bombed, purchase of Hoglands, Leeds exhibition, Coal Mine Drawings, Curt Valentin exhibition, Northampton Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone for Walter Hussey, Out of Chaos film, Family Groups commissioned by Henry Morris, death of Moore's mother.
10. Via New York and Venice to International Fame 1945-1948.
Dartington Memorial Figure, 1945-1946 Hornton stone, birth of daughter Mary, Cranbrook Reclining Figure, 1945-1946 elm wood, first academic honours, committee member/trustee of Tate Gallery, National Gallery, ACGB, etc; first visit to USA for MOMA exhibition and tour, reactions to Australian touring exhibition, Three Standing Figures, 1947-1948 Darley Dale stone, Battersea park, Venice Biennale 1948, Giulio Carlo Argan, sculpture prize.
11. Execration and Celebration 1949-51.
Moore's acutist contemporaneity now at an end, despite Munnings' 1949 attack in the Royal Academy speech. Wakefield exhibition toured Europe. Public reactions to Family Group, 1948-1949 bronze, Moore's first large bronze, and Standing Figure, 1950 b