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0006230
Author/Editor: SWEENEY James Johnson.
Publisher: House and Garden
Place Published: New York
Year: 1964
Date & Collation: (Aug) 126(2)..(1 illus).
Description: Feature on Joseph H. Hirshhorn sculpture garden in Connecticut. Works by Moore can be seen in photographs, and are mentioned in passing in the text.
0008684
Author/Editor: SWEENEY James Johnson.
Publisher: Partisan Review
Place Published: New York
Year: 1947
Date & Collation: (March-April) 14(2) 180-185(1 illus).
Description: Article at time of M.O.M.A. exhibition (See 0008703), composed from several formal and informal discussions with the artist". Moore describes his family life and early career and stresses the importance of the 1925 visit to Italy his discovery of Chacmool and Fry's Vision and Design. His taste for archaic sculpture at the British Museum conflicted with his more formal college training. Describes his war-time experiences the Shelter and Coal Mine Drawings and their influence on his sculpture."
0008703
Author/Editor: SWEENEY James Johnson.
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Place Published: New York
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 96pp(94 illus).4 colour plates.Biog.Bibliog by Hannah B.MULLER 93-95(93 items).
Description: Book of M.O.M.A. exhibition travelling to the Art Institute of Chicago (See also 0008798) and San Francisco Museum of Art. Distributed by Simon and Schuster, New York. Exhibition opening and Copyright 1946, printed January 1947. 58 Sculptures 1922-1946 and 48 Drawings 1928-1946. The text summarises Moore's life, influences and work in sculpture and drawing up to 1946. It incorporates some statements and quotations from the writings of Henry Moore. Primitive art influences, the approach to materials and carving, the War Drawings, and the Reclining Figures of immediately before and after the war are discussed. The first of the Family Groups, and the Northampton Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone are also featured.
Reprinted in 1969 by Arno Press in Five European Sculptors: see 0004905. For film of the exhibition see 0008799. See 0022702 for René d'Harnoncourt's drawings for MoMA exhibition 1946." Also two invitations tp private view.
Reprinted in 1969 by Arno Press in Five European Sculptors: see 0004905. For film of the exhibition see 0008799. See 0022702 for René d'Harnoncourt's drawings for MoMA exhibition 1946." Also two invitations tp private view.