Henry Moore Sheep, curated by the Henry Moore Foundation's Suzanne Eustace, is the first exhibition at the newly-refurbished Hertford Museum.

The exhibition travels to the Gibberd Gallery at Harlow’s Civic Centre opening in July as part of their 2010 summer programme, and was previously shown at the Saffron Walden Museum.

The Henry Moore Foundation will loan several works to this exhibition, including sixteen of Henry Moore’s much-loved sheep etchings together with a selection of related sculpture and found objects.

Henry Moore’s representations of sheep are among the most popular of his works, surprising and delighting those discovering them for the first time. He sketched the animals as they grazed in the fields surrounding his Hertfordshire studios, and they even inspired his monumental bronze sculpture Sheep Piece 1971-72 (LH 627), which can be seen by visiting The Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green.