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0020445
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London.
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: 4pp card(2 Moore illus).
Description: Undated card, received August 2003, with photographs of Knife Edge: Two Piece, 1962-1965 bronze in Abingdon Street Gardens, and Three Standing Figures, Darley Dale stone in Battersea Park; and a list of 14 other Henry Moore works presented to public collections by the CAS.
0009089
Author/Editor: Contemporary Art Society.
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London
Year: 1940
Date & Collation: c.1940.48pp.4 plates.Texts.
Description: Plate 1 is a photograph of Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone, purchased for £300 and presented to the Tate Gallery. Also listed, in Gifts to the Society 1938 and 1939, is a Moore drawing presented by Miss A.F. Brown.
0005082
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: 12pp(2 illus).
Description: 1-4 STRAIGHT Whitney. Chairman's Report 27 June 1968.
5 MEYER Peter. Hon. Treasurer's Report 27 June 1968.
6-8 CLARK Kenneth. Address at the luncheon in honour of Henry Moore, Savoy Hotel, 1 Nov 1967.
9-12 Purchases, Balance sheet, subscriptions, etc.
Knife Edge Two Piece, 1962-1965 bronze is featured on the front cover and the unveiling photograph on page 6. Both the Chairman and Treasurer made passing mention of the work. Sir Kenneth Clark's speech after the unveiling pays tribute to Moore's evident greatness from the early part of his career. Describing Moore as the great civic sculptor of the age" his figures look equally in command of any environment. His imagination comes from great depths and expresses instincts fundamental to the history of mankind. The sculpture was a gift to the nation by the C.A.S. and was unveiled in Abingdon Street Gardens facing the House of Lords."
5 MEYER Peter. Hon. Treasurer's Report 27 June 1968.
6-8 CLARK Kenneth. Address at the luncheon in honour of Henry Moore, Savoy Hotel, 1 Nov 1967.
9-12 Purchases, Balance sheet, subscriptions, etc.
Knife Edge Two Piece, 1962-1965 bronze is featured on the front cover and the unveiling photograph on page 6. Both the Chairman and Treasurer made passing mention of the work. Sir Kenneth Clark's speech after the unveiling pays tribute to Moore's evident greatness from the early part of his career. Describing Moore as the great civic sculptor of the age" his figures look equally in command of any environment. His imagination comes from great depths and expresses instincts fundamental to the history of mankind. The sculpture was a gift to the nation by the C.A.S. and was unveiled in Abingdon Street Gardens facing the House of Lords."
0023144
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London
Year: 2000
Date & Collation: Folded 4pp leaflet.Illus.
Description: Newsletter published by the Contemporary Art Society (CAS). 3 Reference to the centenary of Moore's birth in 1998; CAS presented the Tate with their first work by Moore in 1939. Illus of Recumbent Figure 1938 green Horton stone (LH 191). In 1967 Moore sold Knife Edge Two Piece 1962-65 bronze (LH 516) to CAS at cost so that it could be presented to a major public site. It now sits opposite the House of Lords, London.
0016229
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London
Year: 1994
Date & Collation: 32pp.
Description: David Gordon in the Chairman's Report thanks the Henry Moore Foundation for its continuing support, including retiring director Alan Bowness who was also a member of the society's committee for almost a quarter of a century. Page 18 lists Purchases Made with a Grant from the Henry Moore Foundation.
0008148
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London
Year: 1951
Date & Collation: 12pp.Illus.Text by Edward MARSH.
Description: Annual report for 1950 with one or two passing mentions of Henry Moore, and Openwork Head No. 2, 1950 bronze featured on the front cover.
0008494
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London
Year: 1948
Date & Collation: 16pp.Illus.
Description: Annual report. Includes a photograph on the front cover depicting Three Standing Figures, 1947-1948 Darley Dale stone, and several mentions of Henry Moore: in the report by the Chairman, Sir Edward MARSH, and in listings of purchases and gifts.
0000112
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: 76pp.Illus.Text.Adverts.
Description: 75th anniversary record of the work of the society.
4-18 BUMPUS Judith. The Contemporary Art Society: a significant contribution.
Outline of the history of the organisation which has purchased over 4000 works to donate to galleries and museums. Records transactions of Moore's Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone, and other works. There is a colour plate of Recumbent Figure on page 21, a photograph of Knife-Edge: Two Piece, 1962-1965 bronze on page 14, and of Maternity, 1924 Hopton wood stone in a Leeds City Art Gallery advertisement on page 57. The patronage of the Henry Moore Foundation is noted in its grant of 1984 which allowed the purchase of Untitled 1983 by Anish Kapoor.
4-18 BUMPUS Judith. The Contemporary Art Society: a significant contribution.
Outline of the history of the organisation which has purchased over 4000 works to donate to galleries and museums. Records transactions of Moore's Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone, and other works. There is a colour plate of Recumbent Figure on page 21, a photograph of Knife-Edge: Two Piece, 1962-1965 bronze on page 14, and of Maternity, 1924 Hopton wood stone in a Leeds City Art Gallery advertisement on page 57. The patronage of the Henry Moore Foundation is noted in its grant of 1984 which allowed the purchase of Untitled 1983 by Anish Kapoor.
0023099
Publisher: Contemporary Art Society
Place Published: London
Year: 2001
Date & Collation: Folded 8pp and 4pp leaflet.Illus.
Description: Publicity material for work of the Contemporary Art Society (CAS). Reference to Moore in the History of CAS. In 1939 CAS presented the Tate with its first sculpture by Moore. Illus of Recumbent Figure 1938 green Horton stone (LH 191)