Henry Moore (1898-1986) became a world figure in art in his 60s. Demand for his work -- especially big bronzes suitable for civic spaces -- quickened long after the progress of his art had slowed.

Henry Moore is one of the world ... with the firm belief that a sculptor should respect the inherent properties of stone and wood, and allow them to shine through. In 1924, Moore and his ...

On the near horizon is a bronze sculpture of a reclining ... www.visitdumfriesandgalloway.co.uk) Henry Moore, featuring more than 150 stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings ...

His sculptures were intensely personal, the result of a passionate engagement with each block of wood or stone ... More than any other artist, Henry Moore opened British eyes to modern art.

The shelter drawings came to the attention of the War Artists’ Advisory Committee under its chairman, Sir Kenneth Clark, who appointed Moore an Official War Artist in 1941. These drawings ...

Bill Brandt’s Henry Moore (1942): “Bill Brandt ... direct carver of figures from wood and stone, to post-war sculptor working in plaster and bronze—and were almost always commissions ...

But if there was one figure who made screen legend Lauren Bacall weak in the knees it was British sculptor Henry ... time, Moore was already hailed for his figurative and abstract wood, bronze ...

A dismantled Henry Moore sculpture could be re-erected in Kensington Gardens, London, thanks to the latest rock engineering techniques, says a team of experts. A dismantled Henry Moore sculpture ...

Henry Moore teaches his infant daughter Mary about shape and form, in the artist’s studio at Perry Green, c.1950. Credit: Felix H Man/The Henry Moore Foundation. At one o’clock, he always ate ...

And it is home to a number of Henry Moore artworks ... the internationally-renowned British artist David Nash, who explores the different properties of wood and trees as artistic material.