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0021760
Author/Editor: CORK Richard
Publisher: The Independent on Sunday
Place Published: London
Year: 2010
Date & Collation: 2010(14 Feb)
Description: On the eve of a major retrospective, Richard Cork recalls the extraordinary day he called on the sculptor Henry Moore - and opened some old wounds. Cork recounts his visit to Perry Green in 1981 to engage Moore in a conversation about the West Wind relief carving for the St. James' Underground station.
I soon noticed that, while Moore was talking, his arms and hands never stopped moving. Everything he said was backed up by restless physical gestures - not bombastic but unexpectedly gentle, even feminine. And once, when emphasising how "central" the umbilical was in his sculpture, he clutched dramatically at the protruding flesh around his stomach. (I was impressed by the sense that everything he said mattered a great deal).
Five Moore illus:
West Wind 1928-29 Portland stone, (LH 58)
Ideas for the West Wind Sculpture 1928 drawing, (HMF 646)
UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957-58 Roman Travertine marble, (LH 416)
Large Upright Internal/External Form 1981-82 bronze, (LH 297a)
Standing Figure 1950 fibreglass, (LH 290).
Details of how Moore carved the West Wind Figure, and his disagreement with the Royal Academy over the Epstein relief, and his opinion of Alfred Munnings; "He used to carry a photograph of my Northampton Madonna and Child around in his pocket, and show it to people in order to mock it."
0022785
Author/Editor: CORK Richard
Publisher: RA Magazine
Place Published: London
Year: 2010
Date & Collation: 2010 (Winter) (109) 46-49 (1 illus)
Description: Review of Modern British Sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 22 January - 7 April 2010. 46 Cork writes that sculpture in Britain underwent an astonishing and irrepressible revolution during the twentieth century. Even when Moore gained an immense international reputation his formal language was challenged by outstanding members of the next generation". 48 reference to Moore "enthralled when he encountered the Chacmool reclining figures carved by Aztec sculptors". Highlighted quote "Moore preferred to keep his sculpture separate from the buildings it enhanced. He wanted to free the modern sculptor from being "just a decorator for the architect" and Hepworth agreed with him". 49 illus of Reclining Figure 1951 bronze (LH 293). Reference to support by Epstein; concern with the naked body; focus on female reclining figures; preoccupation with childhood memories of his mother; the importance of parental love; simplified abstraction of the human figure; shared interest with Hepworth; resentment of architecture as "the mother of all arts"; turned down invitation to produce eight seated figures for the façade of London University's Senate House in 1938."
0022466
Author/Editor: CORK Richard
Publisher: RA Magazine
Place Published: London
Year: 2012
Date & Collation: 114 2012 (Spring) 64,85 (1 illus)
Description: Interview with Sir Anthony Caro, during preparations for a show in the grounds of Chatsworth House. Caro discusses his previous misgivings on exhibiting works outdoors; I reacted against the whole pastoral thing that Henry Moore liked...You can easily dwarf sculpture in formal gardens. See also page 64 for quarter-page advert for visitor season at Perry Green.
0021899
Author/Editor: CORK Richard
Publisher: RA: Royal Academy Magazine
Place Published: London
Year: 2010
Date & Collation: 2010(Winter)(109) 6,14,33,46-51, 52-55,79,88,89 (3 Moore illus)
Description: Article, pages 46-51, promoting forthcoming Modern British Sculpture exhibition at RA, featuring work by Moore; mention throughout the article, with one Moore illus:
Reclining Figure: Festival 1951 bronze, (LH 293) with comparison with Chacmool figure also being leant to exhibition.
Mention of Moore turning down comission to produce eight seated figures for the façade of London University's Senate House in 1938.
Pages 52-55 "Groundbreakers" by Tim MARLOW. Interviews Anthony Caro and William Tucker. Both texts include reference to Moore;
Anthony Caro speaks of Moore's dislike for Caro's own sculpture, and names Moore as one of his top five modern British sculptures - his early sculptures were marvellous.
William Tucker recalls seeing Moore's Warrior with Shield 1953-54 bronze, (LH 360), illus, at Holland Park in 1957.
Brief mention of Moore, page 33 within Throughly modern, which promotes Pallant House Gallery exhibition From Cézanne to Picasso. Notes that the show draws heavily on the bequest of the late collector, Charles Kearley, whose collection included Moore.
Page 14 features advert for forthcoming exhibition, Connected: Moore, Frink, Epstein featuring works for sale at Gallery 8, London.
Page 6 features advert for ofrthcoming exhibition of works for sale, at Osborne Samuel gallery, entitled Aspects of British Modern Sculpture. One illus shows Moore's Mother and Child 1953 bronze, (LH 315).
Reclining Figure: Festival 1951 bronze, (LH 293) with comparison with Chacmool figure also being leant to exhibition.
Mention of Moore turning down comission to produce eight seated figures for the façade of London University's Senate House in 1938.
Pages 52-55 "Groundbreakers" by Tim MARLOW. Interviews Anthony Caro and William Tucker. Both texts include reference to Moore;
Anthony Caro speaks of Moore's dislike for Caro's own sculpture, and names Moore as one of his top five modern British sculptures - his early sculptures were marvellous.
William Tucker recalls seeing Moore's Warrior with Shield 1953-54 bronze, (LH 360), illus, at Holland Park in 1957.
Brief mention of Moore, page 33 within Throughly modern, which promotes Pallant House Gallery exhibition From Cézanne to Picasso. Notes that the show draws heavily on the bequest of the late collector, Charles Kearley, whose collection included Moore.
Page 14 features advert for forthcoming exhibition, Connected: Moore, Frink, Epstein featuring works for sale at Gallery 8, London.
Page 6 features advert for ofrthcoming exhibition of works for sale, at Osborne Samuel gallery, entitled Aspects of British Modern Sculpture. One illus shows Moore's Mother and Child 1953 bronze, (LH 315).
0023020
Author/Editor: CORK Richard
Publisher: RA Magazine
Place Published: London
Year: 2013
Date & Collation: 118 2013 (Spring) 19-20 (1 Moore illus)
Description: CORK talks to Anthony Caro, Moore's assistant in the 1950s about Moore and Rodin. Anita FELDMAN explains that one of Moore's first sculptures was based on Rodin's St John the Baptist, and Moore read a collection of interviews with Rodin, which influenced him. Reference to Moore's studies of his daughter, Mary Moore, go beyond pertraiture to lok at the human condition; Moore started acquiring an art collection in the 1960s; Rodin's Walking Man 1899. Caro working with Moore on Falling Warrior 1956-1957 bronze (LH 405) and King and Queen 1952-1953 bronze (LH 350).