Henry Moore

Moore, Henry Sir

British, 1898 - 1986

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A gleaming, free-standing, abstract bronze sculpture made up of three rounded forms fills a two-story, covered entryway. The rounded, smooth forms sit side by side. The form on our right curves slightly inward up the left side and is lightly pinched at the center along the right side. The form on the left is shaped like a fat U with a deep, wide curve at the bottom. Most of the sculpture’s surface is lightly mottled in a rich honey-brown color, except at the top of the front face of the U’s arm, which looks as if it were cut vertically to expose an elongated oval shaped disk of highly polished, bright gold-colored bronze. A third form appears as a straight vertical element behind and to the left of the U-shaped piece. The building behind the sculpture has two stories of floor-to-ceiling windows, which reflect darkly in this photograph. The floor and ceiling above the sculpture, where the entryway covers it, are smooth, buff-pink stone. Two rows of deep-set triangles recede into the ceiling.
Henry Moore, Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece, 1976-1978, bronze, Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1978.43.1

Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece

Henry Moore · 1976-1978 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1978.43.1

Henry Moore, Stone Memorial, 1961/1969, Roman travertine, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.71

Stone Memorial

Henry Moore · 1961/1969 · Roman travertine ·  Accession ID  1983.1.71

Henry Moore, Three Motives Against Wall, Number 1, 1958, bronze, Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1977.47.10

Three Motives Against Wall, Number 1

Henry Moore · 1958 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1977.47.10

Henry Moore, Curwen Press, Reclining Woman on Yellow Background, 1982, color lithograph on wove paper, The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection, 2011.60.70

Reclining Woman on Yellow Background

Henry Moore, Curwen Press · 1982 · color lithograph on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2011.60.70

Henry Moore, Reclining Woman: Elbow, 1981, bronze, Gift of Norma Lee and Morton Funger, 2005.159.1

Reclining Woman: Elbow

Henry Moore · 1981 · bronze ·  Accession ID  2005.159.1

Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, Interior Setting I, 1977, color lithograph on T. H. Saunders wove paper, Gift of John E. Stocker, 2006.125.10

Reclining Figure, Interior Setting I

Henry Moore · 1977 · color lithograph on T. H. Saunders wove paper ·  Accession ID  2006.125.10

Henry Moore, Two Piece Mirror Knife Edge, 1976-1977, bronze, Adolph Caspar Miller Fund, 1978.13.1

Two Piece Mirror Knife Edge

Henry Moore · 1976-1977 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1978.13.1

Henry Moore, Two Piece Mirror Knife Edge, 1976-1977, plaster, Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1978.43.2

Two Piece Mirror Knife Edge

Henry Moore · 1976-1977 · plaster ·  Accession ID  1978.43.2

Henry Moore, Curwen Press, International Exhibitions Foundation, Ideas for Sculptures, 1975, color lithograph on T. H. Saunders wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn), 2015.19.3394

Ideas for Sculptures

Henry Moore, Curwen Press, International Exhibitions Foundation · 1975 · color lithograph on T. H. Saunders wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3394

Henry Moore, Three Heads, 1973, color lithograph on wove paper, Gift of Cecilia W. Spearing, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.237.2

Three Heads

Henry Moore · 1973 · color lithograph on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1991.237.2