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Henry Moore
[British Abstract Sculptor, 1898-1986]
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If a work of sculpture has its own life and form, it will be alive and expansive, seeming larger than the stone or wood from which it is carved. It should always give the impression, whether carved or modeled, of having grown organically, created by pressure from within.
| | - Henry Moore, 1958, quoted by Edouard Roditi |
Henry Moore Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Henry Moore available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
2 drawings online
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
The Warrior, 1954
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Three Standing Figures, 1953
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Sculpture centre associated with the Henry Moore Foundation
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Moore
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Reclining Woman
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Reclining Figure: Hand, 1979 (Zoom)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Henry Moore at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Over 600 works listed
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Computer modelled reconstruction of Moore's Recumbent Figure, allowing it to be viewed in 3 dimensions
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Reclining Figure, No. 1
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Warrior with Shield, 1953-54
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Information about the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre at the AGO, and a text list of works
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge, 1961
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Helmet Head No.2, 1952/55
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
2 works online
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Square Head
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
23 works by or related to the artist
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
The Archer
Atom Piece
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Falmouth Art Gallery, England
8 works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #27
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Works #3 and #6 (click "next" to page down to #6)
Middelheim Open-Air Museum for Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium
King and Queen, 1952-53
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
Museums of Geneva, Switzerland (in French)
Reclining figure, arch leg, 1969-70
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Falling warrior
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Large Two Forms, bronze, 1966-69
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Maquette for Reclining Figure (Two Piece)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Divided Head, 1963
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
Information about the 2009-10 exhibition Henry Moore Textiles
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London, UK
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Moore at Kew"
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
3 sculptures online
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Speed Art Museum, Kentucky
Reclining Figure: Angles, 1979
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
Reclining Connected Forms, 1969
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The work isn't visible on the first page; keep clicking "next"
The Hepworth Wakefield, England
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Vertebrae, 1968
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago
Information about a 1967 exhibition
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Reclining Figure (Exterior Form), 1953-54
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Search results for "Henry Moore"
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
Reclining Figure (Hand)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Flickr Photo Sharing
Enormous collection of photographs of Henry Moore's works at Kew Gardens, London
Henry Moore at The Artchive
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
27 works documented
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
British Council Arts Group
Interpol Stolen Works of Art
Reclining figure, stolen from the Henry Moore Foundation in Hertfordshire, UK
National Fine Art Education Digital Collection, UK
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The BBC
Mother and Child, 1936
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Reclining Figure, bronze
Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London, UK -- Notable past sales
King and Queen, 1952/53
Toronto Sculpture, Ontario, Canada
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Henry Moore 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Henry Moore: Master Drawings from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation
Artcyclopedia
"Henry Moore and the British Museum: The Great Conversation"
Tate Magazine
Tube Shelter Perspective, 1941
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Henry Moore: Smooth operator", 2010 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard
"Does Henry Moore deserve his monumental reputation?", 2010 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"Less is Moore", 2007 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer
"After All These Years, Henry Moore Is Great", article by Hilton Kramer
Multimedia:
The BBC
A variety of radio & TV shows interviews with Henry Moore. Audio programs are freely available, but it appears that videos can only be played in the UK.
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Henry Moore: Sculpting the Twentieth Century
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Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook
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Celebrating Moore
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