Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
History of Sculpture Notebook
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Black paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth 229 x 182mm now containing 40 pages of cream lightweight laid paper 229 x 180mm, with seven pages detached and many others missing. The notebook is too fragmentary to ascertain the number of pages per signature, though six signatures are certain with up to sixteen pages per signature possible.
The pages were unnumbered historically but at some time after 1991 were numbered in pencil top right on the recto by the present owner. They were never signed or dated by the artist.
On the inside of the front cover, upper left, is a stuck-on label describing the notebook as "Bushey sketchbook - for pen or pencil". The name 'Bushey' has sometimes been misleadingly used to describe the notebook. The notebook contents are primarily a collection of short texts on the history of sculpture made while Moore was a student at Leeds School of Art. Only the pages containing drawings have been included in the catalogue raisonné and given AG numbers, though all pages carry HMF archive numbers.
History of Sculpture Notebook
Date1920
Dimensionspaper: 229 × 182 mm
ClassificationsSketchbooks
Credit LineLeeds Art Gallery: gift of Jocelyn Horner
Object numberSKB 1
DescriptionHMF 20(5) to HMF 20(48) Black paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth 229 x 182mm now containing 40 pages of cream lightweight laid paper 229 x 180mm, with seven pages detached and many others missing. The notebook is too fragmentary to ascertain the number of pages per signature, though six signatures are certain with up to sixteen pages per signature possible.
The pages were unnumbered historically but at some time after 1991 were numbered in pencil top right on the recto by the present owner. They were never signed or dated by the artist.
On the inside of the front cover, upper left, is a stuck-on label describing the notebook as "Bushey sketchbook - for pen or pencil". The name 'Bushey' has sometimes been misleadingly used to describe the notebook. The notebook contents are primarily a collection of short texts on the history of sculpture made while Moore was a student at Leeds School of Art. Only the pages containing drawings have been included in the catalogue raisonné and given AG numbers, though all pages carry HMF archive numbers.
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1922-24
1925-26
1926
1975-79
1954-57
1975-81
1950-51
1982-83
1969-77
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