The tate gallery 1982 84.
Henry moore reclining mother and child.
Henry moore volume one.
Lh 70 cast 6.
Henry spencer moore om ch fba 30 july 1898 31 august 1986 was an english artist.
Walker foundation 1963.
4th edition edited by david sylvester with an introduction by herbert read.
Ownership collection walker art center minneapolis.
Moore studied art at the royal college of art in london with.
The sculpture combines two of his dominant themes.
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.
Ownership the new orleans museum of art.
His forms are generally.
At his parents insistence he trained first as a school teacher but enrolled in art school after world war i.
Date 1960 61 cast 1961.
Reclining mother and child.
The reclining figure and the mother and child.
Moore s works are usually suggestive of the female body apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups.
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.
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.
Edition summary bronze edition of 7 1 cast 1975 76 primary.
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Reclining mother and child.
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His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure typically depicting mother and child or reclining figures.
Henry spencer moore 30 july 1898 31 august 1986 was an english artist.
This work combines several themes that preoccupied henry moore.
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.
Object number lh 480 cast 3.
Studies of mother and child ideas for.
Reclining mother and child and two mother and child studies.
Reclining mother and child was made in 1975 76 when moore was in his late seventies.
Gift of the sydney and walda besthoff foundation 98 141.
132 1 228 6 35 5 cm.
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Moore was born in yorkshire england in 1898.
The sculpture garden boasts a collection of works by british artists including henry moore s reclining mother and child.
Object number lh 649.
The reclining figure the relationship of mother and child and the landscape.