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Henry Moore (British, 1898-1986)
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Biography |
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1898 |
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Born: Castleford Yorkshire, England |
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1919 |
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Enrolled at Leeds School of Art |
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1921 - 1924 |
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Royal College of Art in London |
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1924 |
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Won travelling scholarship and went to Italy for six months |
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1928 - 1929 |
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Received commission for first public sculpture: a figure on St James’s Park underground station in London |
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1925 - 1932 |
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Taught sculpture at the Royal College of Art |
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1936 |
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Participated in the International Surrealist exhibition in London |
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1932 - 1939 |
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Taught sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art |
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1955 |
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Made a Companion of Honour |
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1941 - 1956 |
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Trustee of the Tate Gallery |
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1956 |
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Trustee of the National Gallery |
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1957 |
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Commission for the UNESCO building in Paris |
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1962 |
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Commission forKnife Edge Two Pieces, for College Green, opposite the Houses of Parliament in London |
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1963 |
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Received the Order of Merit |
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1967 |
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Commission for Nuclear Energy for the University of Chicago |
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1986 |
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Died: Much Hadham, Herfordshire, England |
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Exhibitions |
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2013 |
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European Masters - Tasende Gallery - West Hollywood, West Hollywood, CA
Beyond Brancusi - Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
NeuenGalerie - neu gesehen: Sammlung + documenta-Erwerbungen - Neue Galerie, Kassel
Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers - Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
British and French Modernism - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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2012 |
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Henry Moore - Late Large Forms - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
Open Depot - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Henry Moore - Late Large Forms - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) |
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2011 |
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Henry Moore - Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (England) |
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2010 |
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55 JAHRE GALERIE KOCH – Meisterwerke der Bildhauerei - Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany
Le Rêve - Der Traum - Motiv und Metapher - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochu, Germany |
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2009 |
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Henry Moore and the Challenge of Architecture, Didrichsen Museum, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
Mother and Child: Henry Moore’s West Dean Tapestries, Figge Art Musuem, Davenport, Iowa
Moore in Ameirca, New York Botanical Garden, NY (solo)
Henry Moore Textiles, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo) |
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2008 |
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Henry Moore imaginary landscapes, Haus am Wladsee, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Moore and Mythology, Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France (solo)
Henry Moore: Master Printmaker - A Major Tour of Russia, 12 venues in Russia (solo) |
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2007 |
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Moore at Kew, Royal Botantic Gardenks, UK (solo)
Good Form: The Goldschmidt Collection of (small scale) Sculpture, Scottsdale museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
Henry Moore: Natural Form, Tate Liverpool, Liverpoo, UK (solo)
Henry Moore: War and Utility, Imperial War Museum, London, UK (solo)
Henry Moore and the Challenge of Architecture, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Power and Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific, British Museum, London, Uk (solo) |
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2006 |
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Henry Moore (retrospective), CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Classics, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere |
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2005 |
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Dimensions, Winston Wachter Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY
Henry Moore: A Retrospective, Sao Paulo, Rio, Brasilia, Brasil (solo)
Henry Moore - Marlborough London, UK (solo) |
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2004 |
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Cubism and its Legacy - The Gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (group) |
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2001 - 2002 |
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Henry Moore, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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2000 - 2001 |
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Moore in China, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghia, China |
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2000 |
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Works on Paper - Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
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1999 |
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Petits Formats - Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY
Sculpture from the New Europe: public sculpture for the 2 Germanies 1945-68 - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK |
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1998 |
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Giacometti to Judd: Prints by Sculptors - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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1993 |
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Modern Masters and the Figure: Picasso to de Kooning - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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1992 |
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The Non-Objective World - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK |
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1985 |
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The Treasure Houses of Britain: 500 Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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1978 |
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Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art I. Picasso and Cubism II. European Painting and Sculpture III. Henri Matisse: Cut-Outs - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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1956 |
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Monumentality in Modern Sculpture - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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1942 |
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First Papers of Surrealism - - Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, New York City, NY |
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1938 |
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Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme..., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
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1936 |
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International Surrealist Exhibition... New Burlington Galleries, London, IK |
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1932 |
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Neue Englische Kunst - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
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Literature |
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2007 |
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Lewison, Jeremy, Henry Moore. Köln ; London : Taschen, 2007 |
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1993 |
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Fuller, Peter, Henry Moore. London : Methuen, 1993 |
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1992 |
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Mitchinson, David and Julian Stallabrass, Henry Moore. New York : Rizzoli, 1992 |
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1988 |
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Compton, Susan P., Henry Moore. London : Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988 |
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1943 |
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Grigson, Geoffrey, Henry Moore. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng. Penguin books, 1943 |
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