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Henry Moore : complete drawings /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Moore, Henry, 1898-1986
Other Authors / Creators:	Garrould, Ann.
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:	Lund Humphries. Henry Moore Foundation.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Imprint:	London : Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries ; Wappinngers Falls, NY : Distributed in the USA by Antique Collectors' Club, c1994-c2003.
Subjects:	Moore, Henry, > 1898-1986 > Catalogs. Moore, Henry, > 1898-1986. Catalogs.

Description
Summary:	Moore's earliest known work on paper exists in a friend's autograph book. The seventeen-year-old, already intent on a career as a sculptor despite his father's protestations, used pencil and watercolour to produce a copy after Turner's Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus. This he carefully signed and dated H.S. Moore 19/2/16. In ensuing years he was to be far less assiduous, leaving many drawings unsigned and undated, thus creating considerable problems for future cataloguers.The few drawings remaining from the years 1916 to 1919 are those preserved by friends or relatives to whom Moore had given them. In them Moore recorded his own ideas for future sculptures and drawings, and sketched rapid studies after Primitive sculptures in the British Museum collection. He continued this practice of keeping notebooks throughout his career.The 1920s were a crucial period in Moore's development. As a student at the Royal College of Art he not only absorbed the formal instruction given there but also paid for extra drawing classes in the evenings. In 1926 he was offered a seven-year contract as Tutor of Sculpture at the Royal College. In the same year he participated in group exhibitions in London and in January 1928 he had his first one-man show at the Warren Gallery, where established artists such as Epstein, Augustus John and Henry Lam bought some of his works.This volume includes a preface and an explanation of how to use the book, an introduction by the Editor, detailed catalogue entries of each work with a black-and-white illustration, plus 16 pages of colour plates.The catalogue of drawings completes the published recording of Moore's work and provides an essential reference tool for museums, galleries, collectors and students of twentieth-century art.
Physical Description:	7 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	085331599X 0853316007 0853316015 0853316031
Author Notes:	Born in Yorkshire, England, the sculptor Henry Moore was a dominant figure in British art from the 1930s to the present. During World War II, he was unable to sculpt and so instead sketched people in the London underground during bombing raids. His career reached international prominence when he represented Britain at the 1948 Venice Biennale. Because many of his monumental sculptures are displayed out of doors, he has a fame beyond that of most artists, whose work can be seen only in museums. Throughout his long career, Moore produced figural sculptures that seem to have a universal appeal. He was one of the first English artists to be aware of sculpture outside the Western tradition. He was one of the most successful public sculptors, and hundreds of his works can be seen in parks and squares throughout the world. Among the most well known are marble sculptures in Lincoln Center in New York City and UNESCO headquarters in Paris. (Bowker Author Biography)