He is best known for his semi abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art as well as sculpture moore produced many drawings including a series depicting londoners sheltering from the blitz during the second world war along with other graphic works on paper.
Henry moore reclining mother and child.
8 7 8 11 1 8 225 283 printed by michael rand published by raymond spencer for the henry moore foundation in an edition of 50 h m 513 515 514 each inscribed moore b r.
Date 1960 61 cast 1961.
Gift of the sydney and walda besthoff foundation 98 141.
His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure typically depicting mother and child or reclining figures.
Sculpture and drawings 1921 1948.
Ownership the new orleans museum of art.
Henry spencer moore 30 july 1898 31 august 1986 was an english artist.
The reclining figure and the mother and child.
Studies of mother and child ideas for.
Moore s works are usually suggestive of the female body apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups.
The reclining figure the relationship of mother and child and the landscape.
Lh 70 cast 6.
Although several examples of this combination exist in moore s drawings he very rarely conflated them in sculpture preferring to treat them as separate subjects.
132 1 228 6 35 5 cm.
Object number lh 649.
Moore began exploring the reclining figure motif in a series of drawings he made in the late 1920s nearly sixty years before creating this sculpture.
Walker foundation 1963.
Reclining mother and child.
The sculpture combines two of his dominant themes.
At his parents insistence he trained first as a school teacher but enrolled in art school after world war i.
Edition summary bronze edition of 7 1 cast 1975 76 primary.
The sculpture garden boasts a collection of works by british artists including henry moore s reclining mother and child.
His forms are generally.
Dimensions 213 cm 83 7 8 in published dimension medium bronze.
Henry spencer moore om ch fba 30 july 1898 31 august 1986 was an english artist.
Object number lh 480 cast 3.
Reclining mother and child was made in 1975 76 when moore was in his late seventies.
This work combines several themes that preoccupied henry moore.
Ownership collection walker art center minneapolis.
Gift of the t.
P02671 reclining mother and child i 1979 p02671 p02673 three etchings each approx.
Moore was born in yorkshire england in 1898.
Moore studied art at the royal college of art in london with.
4th edition edited by david sylvester with an introduction by herbert read.
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Henry moore volume one.
Reclining mother and child and two mother and child studies.