Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing

0023952 Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing The Henry Moore Foundation Much Hadham

Book published to accompany the exhibition Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens. An essay by Sebastiano BARASSI offers a chronological survey of Moore's use of drawing, from his work as a schoolboy in Castleford to the late works of the 1980s.  pp.30-149 consists of illustrations of Moore's drawings, arranged in chronological order, interspersed with commentaries on 18 of these by Sylvia COX.

Commentaries on:

Reclining Male Nude 1922 (HMF 72)

Seated Nude with Mirror 1924 (HMF 261)

Half-Figure 1928 (HMF 661)

Ideas for Sculpture: Transformation of Bones 1932 (HMF 941)

Mother and Child Studies 1933 (HMF 1005)

Mechanisms 1938 (HMF 1367)

Women and Children in the Tube 1940 (HMF 1726)

Coalminer with Pick 1942 (HMF 1987)

Textile Design: Framed Heads 1943 (HMF 2127)

Ideas for Wall Reliefs 1955 (HMF 2862)

Head 1950, 1958 (HMF 2979)

Two Reclining Figures 1961 (HMF 3052)

Pen Exercise IX: Horsemen Crossing a Mountain Crevasse 1970 (HMF 3248)

Reclining Figure in Illuminated Cave 1978 (HMF 78(18))

Girl Playing the Organ 1980 (HMF 80(207))

Two Standing Figures 1980 (HMF 80(282))

Mother and Child on Seashore II 1982 (HMF 82(223))

Hands 1984-86 (HMF 84/86(713))