Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
2024 London, The Courtauld, Moore and the Wall
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2024 London, The Courtauld, Moore and the Wall
08 June 2024 - 22 September 2024
This focused exhibition in the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery considers Henry Moore’s celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist’s fascination with images of the wall, during and immediately after World War II.
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In the London Underground, Moore drew figures sheltering from the bomb raids. The walls of these spaces came to absorb his attention in an altogether new way, becoming scene-setters and key components of his drawings. Moore became fascinated with the bricks and the presence of walls, their texture, mass and volume. They became especially important after his project to illustrate the wartime radio play The Rescue, based on Homer’s Odyssey.
Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall is a collaboration between The Courtauld Gallery and the Henry Moore Foundation. The exhibition suggests for the first time that the walls in Moore’s drawings offer a new way to understand some of his most individual and monumental Post-War sculpture projects.
07 February 2020 - 26 February 2023
Exhibition Info: Photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) and Henry Moore (1898-1986) first met during the Second World War when they both created images of civilians sheltering from the Blitz in the London Underground. Widely disseminated through news media and exhibitions, their haunting depictions of this human crisis became defining images of the war. This major exhibition begins with these early works and traces the artists’ parallel and intersecting paths across the post-war years, revealing their interdisciplinary range and the sculptural dimensions of photography, drawing and collage.
28 March 2024 - 03 November 2024
Exhibition Info: In 2024, a selection of over twenty of Moore’s bronzes will be displayed in the landscape adjacent to the studios where he developed his ideas. Natural and human forms can be seen to have inspired sculptures across all of Moore’s most iconic themes: the mother and child, the reclining figure, and the juxtaposition of internal / external forms. A number of Moore’s multi-part reclining figures, where he asks the viewer to imaginatively piece together the body, are joined by some of his purest organic abstractions in which we can trace the journey from handheld pebble to monumental work.
3 May to 8 September 2024
Exhibition Info: Henry Moore in Miniature includes over 60 of Moore’s works that can fit in the hand. It features maquettes for some of his best-known public sculptures, alongside lesser-known works, including the display for the very first time in a museum exhibition of a recently discovered early lead cast of Mother & Child.
17 September 2021 - 23 January 2022
Exhibition Info: Configuration brings together a small, focused selection of sculpture, drawings and collages highlighting Henry Moore’s ceaseless investigation into form, material and volume. Throughout his lifetime, Moore collected objects such as bones, stones, shells and driftwood which he would turn over in his hands, build up, press into clay, cast, or photograph. This haptic practice saw Moore humanise these forms, and capture their relationship to the body both physical and imaginative.
27 May 2022 - 04 September 2022
Exhibition Info: This exhibition takes as its starting point the artist’s early fascination with the Neolithic site of Stonehenge and continued exploration of the upright abstract form. Moore first encountered the prehistoric monument under the moonlight as a young man in 1921. He was inspired by the grandeur of the idea – a powerful and primal work of art set in the landscape.
16 December 2022 - 26 August 2023
Exhibition Info: Drawing in the Dark is the largest exhibition to date of Moore’s coalmining drawings, completed in 1942 for the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. When Moore was asked to record the coalminers working to power wartime Britain, he chose to visit the mine his father had worked in, Wheldale Colliery in Castleford, where he spent a week drawing from observation. Subsequently, he worked from memory to create the remaining drawings which were all completed within six months. This fascinating body of work reveals the back-breaking labour endured by nearly 3/4 million miners as they made their vital contribution to Britain's war effort, while also providing new insights into Moore’s life and artistic process.
11 June 2022 - 25 September 2022
Exhibition Info: Lucy Carrington Wertheim (1883-1971) supported many public galleries and young artists, and bequeathed over 50 works to Towner Art Gallery. This exhibition will bring together paintings, drawings and sculptures from her disbanded collection for the first time in 50 years alongside works exhibited in the Wertheim Gallery, which she established in 1930. The exhibition includes Moore’s Head of a Girl which was shown at the Wertheim Gallery’s opening exhibition.
01 April 2022 - 30 October 2022
Exhibition Info: Henry Moore: The Sixties presents a fascinating insight into Moore’s life and work during this pivotal decade in his career. The exhibition reveals the dramatic shift in his working practices that enabled him to work on an increasingly monumental scale; his move towards greater abstraction; and the enormous global demand for his work during this period, along with the controversy this generated. The exhibition feautures sculptures, drawings, graphics and archive material drawn entirely from the Henry Moore Foundation’s collection.
17 July 1968 - 22 September 1968
Exhibition Info: Retrospective exhibition of sculptures and drawings organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and held at the Tate Gallery in honour of Moore's 70th birthday.
16 September 2022 - 31 March 2023
Exhibition Info: 50 years after the exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere, the English master Henry Moore returns to Florence. Two sculptures, Large Interior Form and Family Group, are exhibited respectively in Piazza della Signoria and outside the front entrance of the Abbey of San Miniato al Monte.
15 February 2012 - 04 November 2012