Sculpture - Escultura: Henry Moore - 1940-49 - Part 2 - Drawing - Dibujos - Links

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Maquette for Madonna and Child  1943
Bronze
object: 146 x 54 x 67 mm
sculpture
Purchased 1945

The mother and child had been a major theme in Moore's work since the 1920s. Yet when the vicar of the Church of St Matthew, Northampton, invited Moore to make a sculpture of the Madonna and Child for the church, he was reluctant to accept. He felt unsure how to adapt his secular interests to the Christian tradition.

These bronzes are casts of the original terracotta models he made for the project. They are unusually naturalistic and steeped in references to religious art of the Renaissance. This suggests Moore was trying to produce a sculpture that people would find both modern and familiar.
 (From the display caption August 2004)

Maquette for Madonna and Child  1943
Bronze
object: 184 x 89 x 76 mm
sculpture
Purchased 1945

The mother and child had been a major theme in Moore's work since the 1920s. Yet when the vicar of the Church of St Matthew, Northampton, invited Moore to make a sculpture of the Madonna and Child for the church, he was reluctant to accept. He felt unsure how to adapt his secular interests to the Christian tradition.

These bronzes are casts of the original terracotta models he made for the project. They are unusually naturalistic and steeped in references to religious art of the Renaissance. This suggests Moore was trying to produce a sculpture that people would find both modern and familiar.
 (From the display caption August 2004)

Family Group  1944
Terracotta
object: 150 x 126 x 76 mm
sculpture
Lent from a private collection 1994


Maquette for Family Group  1944
Bronze
object: 137 x 114 x 67 mm
sculpture
Purchased 1945

These maquettes, or preparatory models, were made during the mid-1940s, when Moore was working on a commission for a sculpture for a progressive school for children and parents. The theme of the family was particularly relevant.

In the end none of Moore's designs were chosen. Four years later he re-considered these models when planning a commission for a similarly progressive school, Barclay Secondary School in Stevenage. A cast of the full scale Family Group he made for the school is on display in this gallery. Later still, Moore used these maquettes as source material for the other family groups.
 (From the display caption August 2004)

Three Standing Figures  1945
Plaster
object: 230 x 116 x 102 mm
sculpture
Lent from a private collection 1994

Maquette for Family Group  1945
Bronze
object: 127 x 98 x 63 mm
sculpture
Purchased 1945

These maquettes, or preparatory models, were made during the mid-1940s, when Moore was working on a commission for a sculpture for a progressive school for children and parents. The theme of the family was particularly relevant.

In the end none of Moore's designs were chosen. Four years later he re-considered these models when planning a commission for a similarly progressive school, Barclay Secondary School in Stevenage. A cast of the full scale Family Group he made for the school is on display in this gallery. Later still, Moore used these maquettes as source material for the other family groups.
 (From the display caption August 2004)


Composition for a Poem by Herbert Read  circa 1946
Lithograph on paper
image: 352 x 279 mm
on paper, print
Presented by the artist 1975


Family Group  1949
Bronze
object: 1540 x 1180 x 700 mm, 475 kg
sculpture
Purchased 1950

Family Group is derived from one of a number of maquettes that Moore made for a sculpture for Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire. In the end none of them was accepted. Several years later, however, he was approached to make a sculpture for the Barclay Secondary School in Stevenage and returned to the theme. The bronze was cast in an edition of four. One is still at the Barclay Secondary School. The others were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Nelson D Rockefeller, and Tate.

 (From the display caption September 2004)


Figures in Settings (trial proof)  1949-5
Lithograph on paper
image: 610 x 486 mm
on paper, print
Presented by Dr Baer 1975


from School Prints (P01698-P01727; complete)
Sculptural Objects  1949
Lithograph on paper
image: 495 x 762 mm
on paper, print
Presented by Patrick Seale Prints 1975


Standing Figures  1949-51
Lithograph on paper
image: 381 x 470 mm
on paper, print
Presented by the artist 1975


Woman Holding Cat  1949-51
Lithograph on paper
image: 457 x 568 mm
on paper, print
Presented by the artist 1976

 
Figures in Settings & Sculptural Ideas  1949
Lithograph on paper
image: 260 x 368 mm
on paper, print
Presented by the artist 1976


 



 
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