Henry Moore Biography. Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He is best known for his abstract bronze sculptures which are located in various prominent public places. Jan 20, 2020 1; Born on 30 July 1898, Henry Moore was the seventh child of a Yorkshire coal miner Henry Moore’s father wanted a better life for his children than working in the mines, and encouraged them to pursue higher education.
Moore in 1975, by Allan Warren | |
Nationality | English |
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Known for | sculpture, drawing |
Reclining Figures, 1930s – 1980s | |
Movement | Bronze Sculpture, Modernism |
Awards |
Henry Spencer MooreOMCHFBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist in the modern artgenre. He was best known for his abstract monumental sculptures, which are public works of art in many places around the world.
His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works usually suggest the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he did family groups. His forms are generally pierced or have hollow spaces. Some think the undulating form of his reclining figures reflect the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire.
Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a mining engineer. He became known for his larger-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures. His large-scale commissions made him exceptionally rich. Yet he lived carefully and most of the money he earned went towards endowing the Henry Moore Foundation. This supports education and promotion of the arts.[2]
He did some work in architecture. in 1955 Moore did his only work in carved brick, 'Wall Relief' at the Bouwcentrum in Rotterdam. The brick relief was sculpted with 16,000 bricks by two Dutch bricklayers under Moore's supervision.
Wall Relief No. 1, (1955), Bouwcentrum, Rotterdam
The Art Gallery of Ontario's Henry Moore collection is the largest public collection of his works in the world.
Gallery[change | change source]
- West Wind (1928) Portland stone, 55 Broadway, London
- Family Group (1950) bronze, Barclay School, Stevenage
- Reclining Figure (1951) painted plaster, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 1 (1961) bronze, Yorkshire sculpture park
- Locking Piece (1963) bronze, on the bank of the River Thames, London
- Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 5 (1963-64) bronze, Kenwood House, London
- Three Way Piece No. 2 (The Archer) (1964-65) Toronto City Hall Plaza
- Hill Arches (1972-73) bronze, National Gallery of Australia
- Three Forms: Vertebrae (1968-69), at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
- Kongreßhalle in Berlin with Large Divided Oval: Butterfly (1985?)
- 'Large Butterfly', 1986, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, Berlin-Tiergarten, Germany
- Die Liegende in Stuttgart Staatsgalerie
- Sculpture in front oh the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- Large Vertebrae (Wirbel) 1967/68 - Münster, Germany Himmelreichallee
- Henry Moore sculpture at Kew Gardens, London, in an extensive exhibition of his work in 2007.
References[change | change source]
- ↑Deaths England and Wales 1984-2006
- ↑'Chronology'. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Retrieved on 22 September 2008. Archive copy at the Internet Archive
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Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century and arguably the most internationally celebrated sculptor of the period. He is renowned for his semi-abstract monumental bronzes, which can be seen all over the world.
Henry Moore at Hoglands, c.1960
Moore was born in Castleford, a small mining town in Yorkshire, in 1898. After training to be a teacher and serving in the British Army he studied at Leeds School of Art and then the Royal College of Art, London. By the 1950s Moore had begun to receive a number of international commissions. He continued working in sculpture, drawing, printmaking and textile design until his death in 1986.
Moore was a pioneer, and the first British artist to become a global star in his own lifetime. His work came to symbolise post-war modernism and can be said to have caused a British sculptural renaissance.