MOORE, Henry, 1898-1986DORE, Gustave, 1832-1883DANTE Alighieri, 1265-1321LATE Middle Ages (Literary period)The article focuses on an essay that discusses artist Henry Moore's works inspired by French artist Gustave Doré's illustrations for Italian poet Dante Alighieri's Divi...
Dating from 1945,Two Women with Childrenwas executed at a time during which drawing had taken on a new importance for the artist. During the Second World War Moore had produced a series of drawings whilst taking cover from air raids in the tube stations of London. Sculptural in their approac...
In 1940, during the Second World War, Moore stopped teaching at the Chelsea School and moved to a farmhouse about 20 miles north of London. A shortage of materials forced him to focus on drawing. He did numerous small sketches of Londoners, later turning these ideas into large coloured draw...
Moore was born in 1898 in the English mining town of Castleford, near Leeds. After teaching at Castleford Grammar School, he fought in the First World War and, on his return from France in 1919, enrolled at Leeds School of Art, where he was joined by fellow artist Barbara Hepworth. He ...
Moore stopped teaching at the Chelsea School and moved to a farmhouse about 20 miles north of London. A shortage of materials forced him to focus on drawing. He did numerous small sketches of Londoners, later turning these ideas into large coloured drawings in his studio. In 1942, he returne...
drawings made in the London Underground during the Second World War. After his first visit to Greece in 1951, where he came across the classical use of the draped figure, it appeared more frequently in his work, receiving its fullest expression in this sculpture and its two sister works,...
In its drapery and form,Family Grouprelates to Moore's celebrated Shelter Drawings executed during the Second World War. Drawing from memory after having spent weeks observing life in the underground shelters of London, in those works Moore gave shape to draped figures, sleeping and huddling togeth...
Henry Moore, the British artist widely regarded as the greatest sculptor to emerge after World War II, died Sunday at the the age of 88 at “Hoglands,” his home at Much Hadham Hertfordshire near London. The cause of death was not disclosed, but Moore had been in frail health for severa...
After leaving school, Moore hoped to become a sculptor, but instead he complied with his father's wish that he train as a schoolteacher. He had to abandon his training in 1917 when he was sent to France to fight in the First World War. After the war, Moore enrolled at the Leeds ...
As part of the series covering the complete drawings of Henry Moore, this third volume deals with the years of World War II, the only period of Moore's working life when he was not actively involved in making sculpture. The decade includes his exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Ne...