Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes
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Bib. Number0022624
The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes
Author/EditorHILL Jane
PublisherLund Humphries
Place PublishedFarnham
Year2011
Date & Collation152pp.Illus.Bibliography.Chronology.Index
LanguageEnglish
More InformationAnalysis and comprehensive catalogue of the artist's sculpture. 10 Leon Underwood and 'Harry' Moore. 16 the Brook Green circle" and Henry Moore and Irina Radetsky. 17 illus of Hermes in the orchard with Moore's wedding gift. Robert Burstow is cited as describing these young friends as sharing "the modern reforming aesthetic of sunlight and air the cult of youth and the nude associated with the northern hemisphere". Moore described in his notebook Figure Studies 1922-4 as "an imaginary picture of all one's friends at a nude party". Illus of Henry Moore Irina Radetsky Judith Raymond Coxon Hermes Simon and Blair Hughes-Stanton at Chetwynd House. 33 Moore's one man show at the Dorothy Warren Gallery in 1928 "he cherished the identity of the buyers: Augustus John Henry Lamb and Jacob Epstein". 35 passing reference to Moore as one of Frank Pick's protégés. 56 Moore Epstein and Hermes working with the Art Bronze Foundry. 63 passing reference to teaching and exhibiting. 65 Patricia Strauss Chairman of the Parks Committee and collector of Moore initiated the Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture Battersea Park showing Moore and other artists. 75 the Musée de l'homme Paris inspired Hermes' Oceanic carvings and Moore's Internal/External Forms 1952-4. 81 and 94 reference to Mother and Child acquired by Francis Watson for the Rajah of Aundh. 83 passing reference to Moore alongside Hepworth Caro Long."