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0017157
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: c.9 colour postcards in folder, plus leaflet.
Description: Title as printed on spine of folder: 20th-Century Sculpture in Leeds.
Printed on the inside of the folder is a text by Penelope Curtis entitled Modern British Sculpture: 20th-Century Sculpture in Leeds.
Inserted is a folded sheet entitled Postcards from Leeds on My Kind of Sculpture, with illustrations and comments by the public.
The Moore card depicts Maternity, 1924 Hopton wood stone
Cited also is the Centre for the Study of Sculpture, and Henry Moore Institute.
0007203
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1958
Date & Collation: (8 Oct-5 Nov).16pp.20 plates.Biog.Bibliog.Foreword by Arthur ADAMSON and Robert ROWE.
Description: Centenary Music Festival exhibition of 50 works by five sculptors born in Yorkshire.
8-9,15-16,Plates 1,5,7,11,18(6 illus) Henry Moore: 11 Sculptures 1929-1954.
The Foreword mentions briefly vandalism at Temple Newsam against Reclining Figure: Festival, 1951 bronze as last occasion when Leeds has seen Moore works in the Open Air.
0010923
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (22 Jan-22 March).48pp.Illus.Foreword by Elizabeth NASH, Christopher GILBERT.Introduction and catalogue by Adam WHITE.
Description: Exhibition sponsored by Ernst and Whinney and organised by the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, also at the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Arts Centre (Coventry) 20 April-16 May 1987. 20 sculptures by 16 artists, the public being invited to touch the works.
Exhibits 1,6,14,19(4 illus) Henry Moore: four Bronzes 1968-1985.
The introduction and commentaries note Moore's interest in the tactile, his Mother and Child theme, and use of Natural forms for inspiration. The large-print catalogue, also published in a braille edition, and as a 33 minute audio cassette recorded by Judith Nesbitt.
0000720
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1984
Date & Collation: (24 Nov)-1985(6 Jan).4pp(1 illus).
Description: List of 54 Sculptures 1924-1984, Drawings 1928-1979, including Sketchbook for the West Wind Relief and one painting by Ivon Hitchens.
The exhibition also included Shells and Flints from Moore's studio" and Moore's "signature punch.""
0003104
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1977
Date & Collation: 108pp.Illus.
Description: 1,76(1 illus) Henry Moore: Reclining Figure, 1929 brown Hornton stone.
0011104
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1988
Date & Collation: (4 Oct)-1989(15 Jan).123pp.Illus.Foreword by Bernard ATHA and Christopher GILBERT.Introduction by Frances SPALDING.
Description: An exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Leeds City Art Gallery 1888-1988. Sponsored by Barclays. 101 works, with commentaries by Alexander ROBERTSON, Corinne MILLER, Nigel WALSH. Chronologies compiled by Terry FRIEDMAN.
38,90(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Exhibit 37 Maternity, 1924 Hopton wood stone.represents Moore's fascination with ancient Mexican sculpture. Frances Spalding writes of the carving: "It is not a Christian icon but a celebration of a very human relationship... But the primitive element in Moore's art also conveys feelings of awe and strangeness..."
Title as printed: 100 Years of Art in Britain.
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0012696
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1990
Date & Collation: 16 plates.Illus.
Description: Subtitled: Thirteen Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection at Leeds City Art Gallery. The August 1991 plate shows two photographs of Reclining Figure, 1929 brown Hornton stone, one of them with the young Henry Moore. A commentary on plate 16 describes this as an original studio photograph, taken around 1930, and presented to the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture by Lady Hendy in 1982.
0012785
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1991
Date & Collation: (5 Dec)-1992(1 Feb).72pp.Illus.Bibliog.Texts by David SMITH, Jeremy LEWISON, William BLAKE (1940), Terry FRIEDMAN, Christina STEAD (1940).
Description: Published by the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture on the occasion of the exhibition at the Imperial War Museum (London) 25 April-23 June 1991; Museum of Modern Art (Oxford) 14 July-28 Sept 1991; Leeds, and Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol) 29 Feb-5 April 1992. On page 68 in the Chronology of a Low Dishonest Decade by Terry Friedman is an illustration of Moore's Spanish Prisoner, 1939 lithograph. There are also quotations from Moore's letter to Yorkshire Post, 31.3.1938 (See 0009144) and other political texts, e.g. (See 0009150).
0016509
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1995
Date & Collation: .140pp. Illus.Biog.Bibliog.Texts by Corinne MILLER, Lindsay STAINTON, Pippa MASON, Jonathan THRISTAN.
Description: One Hundred Watercolours from the Leeds City Art Galleries. Produced by Watmoughs (Holdings) on the occasion of the exhibition Still Waters: Watercolours from Leeds City Art Gallery 11 March-27 May 1995.
Exhibit 89 Henry Moore: Shelter Drawing: Two Seated Figures, 1941 drawing.
0011434
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1990
Date & Collation: (22 Feb-26 Aug).22pp(1 illus).Bibliog.Introduction by Terry FRIEDMAN.
Description: The exhibition has been organised and researched, and the catalogue written by B.A. Honours students attending The History of the Fine and Decorative Arts Course taught by the curators of the Leeds City Art Galleries in conjunction with the Fine Art Department of Leeds University. 29 exhibits including 11 featuring Henry Moore, with commentaries by Michela BISEO, Georgina NEALL, Emma WIGGEN, Sarah YATES, and Terry Friedman. The introduction describes the Hampstead in the 1930s environment and includes quotations from statements by Moore and others.
0001530
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1982
Date & Collation: 24pp(12 illus).
Description: Bound edition of booklet commemorating the reopening of the Leeds City Art Gallery with front cover lettered Leeds City Art Gallery 26 November 1982".
Benefactors.
(List includes the Henry Moore Foundation).
NASH Elizabeth. Foreword.
(Acknowledgements to officers staff architects etc.).
STRICKLAND-CONSTABLE Miranda. The first seventy years.
(Outline history 1888 to 1950s).
ROWE Robert S. The story of Leeds City Art Gallery from 1958 to 1982.
(Mentions Moore's early contacts and later funding).
FRIEDMAN Terry. The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture.
(Moore's initiation of need for facilities; and subsequent rationale of Study Centre's activities and holdings).
A paperback edition exists with the title: Leeds City Art Gallery 1888-1982; The Moore Sculpture Gallery The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture The Craft Centre and Design Gallery."
0006464
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1962
Date & Collation: (6 Dec)-1963(10 Jan).32pp(4 illus).Bibliog.Preface by Arthur ADAMSON and Robert ROWE.Introduction by W.T.OLIVER.
Description: 113 works by 70 artists including one Henry Moore drawing which is reproduced: Study for Sculpture, 1926 drawing, given to the Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley in 1933. W.T. Oliver quotes from Moore's recollections of Sadler, as a student at Leeds School of Art, on a later visit to Oxford, and the letter Moore received from Sadler just before he died.
Full title: A Commemorative Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Sir Michael Sadler K.C.S.I. 1861-1943, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds 1911-1923, chosen from his gifts to Public and University Collections.
0006877
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1960
Date & Collation: (9 March-10 April).26pp(2 illus).12 plates.Bibliog.Prefatory texts by Arthur ADAMSON, Robert ROWE.Introduction by Herbert READ.
Description: Exhibition paying tribute to E.C.(Peter) Gregory of Lund Humphries. 112 works by 27 artists.
13-14,Plate 1, Henry Moore: two Sculptures 1931-1932 and four Drawings 1935-1941.
Read mentions in passing the faith Gregory had in young artists like Henry Moore.
0000719
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1984
Date & Collation: (24 Nov)-1985(6 Jan).46pp(57 illus).Biog.Bibliog.
Description: A pictorial anthology published on the occasion of the exhibition showing the relationship between Moore's working methods and the creative inspiration, at the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture. The text consists principally of previously published statements by the artist and others which accompany the photographs. There is a foreword, noting acknowledgments by Elizabeth NASH and Christopher GILBERT; followed by a short Introduction by Terry FRIEDMAN and Adam WHITE noting the use of direct carving, modelling, and other processes of inspiration.
The Drama Studies and Creative Arts Department of Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education performed Narayana and Bhataryan on Friday 23 November 1984 at the exhibition. A 4pp List of Exhibits was also issued (See 0000720).
0011471
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1990
Date & Collation: (26 Jan-11 March).36pp.Illus.Foreword by Anthony BROWN.Introduction by C.G.GILBERT.
Description: Leeds Arts Calendar 105 1989. 346 works.
Exhibits 136,194,232-238,296(1 illus) Henry Moore: ten Sculptures 1921-1964, one Drawing 1941, one Ceramic 1919-1921, one Enamel 1921, one Exercise Book 1919-1921 (See 0010633) and one Typescript of the Play Narayana and Bhataryan 1917-1920 (See 0009620).
There is brief passing mention of Moore in the prefatory texts.
Private view invitation
0023810
Publisher: Leeds City Art Gallery
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1982
Date & Collation: 27 November.illus.
Description: Invitation to private view of three exhibitions, including "Henry Moore Early Carvings 1920-1940", on the occassion of the reopening of Leeds City Art Gallery. Illus. of LH 59.