Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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0009432
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening News
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (7 Feb).
Description: 17-line note describing Henry Moore's working clothes at the Royal College of Art, and ending with the paragraph "And he is kind-hearted".
0009438
Publisher: The Scotsman
Place Published: Edinburgh
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (4 July)..
Description: Review of St. George's Gallery exhibition of François Pompon and French and English sculptors. Henry Moore is untidy and over-vehement but he has much to express and at times does so with real conviction.""
0009428
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (28 Jan)..
Description: Review of second annual Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery, with a paragraph on Moore. Henry Moore's drawing and two pieces of sculpture may give the visitor a moment of perplexity. The German robustness and the simplicity of his pieces in cement and bronze may be glaringly unconventional to the lay eye but both have a balance which cannot be overlooked.""
0009440
Publisher: Apollo
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (Aug)..
Description: Short exhibition review. "Mr Moore seems to rely on a set formula in order to create an effect of originality."
0009441
Publisher: Yorkshire Evening News
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (4 July)..
Description: 12-line news note that Henry Moore is exhibiting at St. George's Gallery with François Pompon.
0009445
Publisher: Studio
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (Sept)..
Description: Brief review of St. George's Gallery exhibition in which Moore's drawings are described as rotating on their own mass"."
0018632
Publisher: Glasgow Bulletin
Place Published: Glasgow
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (6 Feb)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of Henry Moore carving his North Wind, i.e. West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone on London Underground Headquarters.
0010780
Publisher: Platt Hall
Place Published: Manchester
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: ..pp.Illus.Introduction by S.D.CLEVELAND.
Description: Introduction, dated December 1928, explains that the catalogue has been compiled with the object of assisting borrowers in the selection of items for loan, which may be seen at Platt Hall. The scheme owes its inception to Charles Lambert Rutherston who presented works to the Manchester Art Gallery in 1925. He died in 1927, but the collection was developed by Mrs. Rutherston and Miss Rutherston and others.
Items 584-585 Henry Moore: two carvings.
Head (Head of a Girl, 1922 wood) and Woman (Standing Woman, 1923 walnut wood).
Items 584-585 Henry Moore: two carvings.
Head (Head of a Girl, 1922 wood) and Woman (Standing Woman, 1923 walnut wood).
0009444
Publisher: Sphere
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (Jan)..(2 illus).
Description: Two photographs of St. James's Park Underground Headquarters under construction, showing the sculptors at work on scaffolding 100 feet above ground.
0009443
Author/Editor: WILENSKI R.H.
Publisher: Britannia
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (1 March) 286-287(1 Moore illus).
Description: The success of young British artists like Cedric Morris, John Armstrong and Alan Durst prove that the modern movement has come into its own. Includes a photograph of Horse, 1923 bronze and a paragraph on the thirty-one-year-old Moore, then Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, who had recently completed the North Wind commission. Horse...has the curious architectural rhythm of Chinese sculpture...""
0009435
Publisher: The Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (5 April)..(4 illus).
Description: Favourable review of the St. James's Park Station sculptures. This view was not shared by writers of letters printed in The Times of 8, 10, 12 and 13 April 1929. The illustrations show four of the carvings free of scaffolding, including Moore's West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone.
0009427
Author/Editor: Manchester City Art Gallery.
Publisher: Manchester City Art Gallery
Place Published: Manchester
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: c.1929. 34pp.37 plates.
Description: 21,26,27 Henry Moore.
Records the gift by Mrs. and Miss Rutherston of Head of a Girl, 1922 wood; and the loan by Henry Lamb through the Contemporary Art Society to the Rutherston Loan Scheme of Mother and Child, 1924-1925 Hornton stone.
Records the gift by Mrs. and Miss Rutherston of Head of a Girl, 1922 wood; and the loan by Henry Lamb through the Contemporary Art Society to the Rutherston Loan Scheme of Mother and Child, 1924-1925 Hornton stone.
0009433
Publisher: Yorkshire Observer
Place Published: Bradford
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (5 Feb)..(1 illus).
Description: Reported interview with Moore eighty feet above ground working on the London Underground carving, with Epstein working nearby. Outlines Moore's schooling and career, and his method of working the 9ft. x 4ft. West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone in his studio. The illustration is Standing Woman, 1926 stone, since destroyed.
0009439
Publisher: Manchester Guardian
Place Published: Manchester
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (27 July)..(4 illus).
Description: Large photographs of four of the carvings, one of which is Moore's West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone.
0009429
Publisher: Evening Standard
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (31 Jan)..(2 illus).Initialled R.H.W.
Description: Feature on the carvings, with a brief mention of Moore's working methods and photographs of the artist and his North Wind, i.e. West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone.
0009430
Publisher: Yorkshire Post
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (1 Feb)..
Description: Short report on a recumbent female figure of the north-west wind" to adorn the new Underground headquarters. Although his first work "for a permanent public building in London he was represented at the Wembley Exhibition by some keystone heads over the cotton exhibit in the Palace of Industry" (See 0010803. In 1982 Henry Moore told the Editor of this Bibliography that he had carried out an even earlier sculpture commission while still a student at Leeds School of Art). The article also mentions the carvings for a private garden in Chelsea (See 0006258). "He is essentially a modernist and no photographer in stone." The Yorkshire Evening Post of 1 February 1929 carried a photograph of the Underground carvings with the caption "A Yorkshire artist's North Wind"."
0009442
Author/Editor: BAYER, Walter
Publisher: Architectural Review
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (Nov) 240-241(8 illus).Text signed Myras.
Description: Photographs of the sculptures on St. James's Park Underground station, two of each of the four winds, including Henry Moore's West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone. The locations on the building are given (Moore's work is on the north side of the east wing) and the total project is briefly surveyed. This article is preceded on pages 225-239 by an architectural feature on the whole building:
BAYER Walter. Sense and sensibility: the new head offices of the Underground railway, Westminster, London (Adams, Holden and Pearson, Architects).
BAYER Walter. Sense and sensibility: the new head offices of the Underground railway, Westminster, London (Adams, Holden and Pearson, Architects).
0009434
Publisher: Daily Telegraph
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (7 March)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of Moore's West Wind, 1928-1929 Portland stone. This illustration also appeared in the Daily Sketch (Manchester) 7 March 1929, and the Bulletin and Scots Pictorial (Glasgow) 8 March 1929.
0009436
Publisher: Morning Post
Place Published: London
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (13 April)..
Description: Brief text by art critic of Morning Post condemning the grotesque figures" on the Underground Railway Headquarters. Moore's West Wind 1928-1929 Portland stone is described as "unpardonable". Letters in support of this view were printed in the Morning Post of 15 19 and 22 April."
0009437
Author/Editor: WHITFIELD George.
Publisher: Liverpool Echo
Place Published: Liverpool
Year: 1929
Date & Collation: (14 June)..(1 illus).
Description: Analysis of Reclining Woman, 1927 cast concrete in the exhibition by the Sandon Studios Society at Bluecoat Chambers. The sculpture is sufficiently modernistic to be as old as Eden while concrete" and possesses a "primitive truth"."