Henry Moore
Henry Moore in 1975, standing next to his sculpture Working Model for Oval with Points
The foremost sculptor of the middle 20th century
Henry Moore (1898-1986) saw himself as a sort of reincarnation of Michelangelo, mining his marbles from the same quarries and letting the stone itself dictate the final, flowing, abstract, surrealistic figures carved from it.
The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, where he studied, preserves drawings and sculpture, as do the following:
- Tate Modern, London
- Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Clare College, Cambridge
Selected works by Henry Moore in England
Where to find works by Henry Moore in England
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A gallery of some of the greatest hits of British painting and sculpture
