Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Family Groups
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Family Groups
Date1944
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2230
Date Order NumberAG 44.57
Dimensionspaper: 533 x 330 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.r. Moore/44
Inscription
pen and ink l.c. Family Groups (Impington)
Ownershipunknown
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The inscription refers to a request from Henry Morris for a sculpture to be placed in the grounds of a proposed village college in Impington, Cambridgeshire. Moore later wrote: ‘The Family Group in all its differing forms sprang from my absorbing [Morris’s] idea of the village college - that it should be an institution which could provide for the family unit at all its stages.’ The commission was delayed and finally refused due to lack of funds, but a cast of the resulting Family Group (LH 269) was installed at Barclay School, Stevenage, in 1950.