id: 134169 accession number: 1956.664 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.664 updated: 2023-03-15 14:33:34.828000 Standing Figures, 1949. Henry Moore (British, 1898–1986). Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken 1956.664 © 2010 The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Standing Figures title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1949 creation date earliest: 1949 creation date latest: 1949 current location: creditline: The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken copyright: © 2010 The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: England, 20th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Cramer 9 --- CREATORS * Henry Moore (British, 1898–1986) - artist Henry Moore British, 1898-1986 Born in Castleford, Yorkshire, Henry Moore was one of this century's most famous sculptors. Following studies at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, Moore began carving sculpture from stone and wood in the early 1920s. His work was first publicly exhibited in a 1924 group show at London's Redfern Gallery, and the following year he traveled through Europe on a scholarship from the Royal College of Art. Moore was given his first one-artist exhibition at London's Warren Gallery in 1928 and that same year received his first public commission (West Wind, a relief carving in stone for one of the facades of the city's new Underground Railway headquarters). By the early 1930s he had been named head of the new department of sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art in London, and in 1934 the first monograph devoted to his sculpture was published, Henry Moore: Sculpture. During the early years of his career, Moore began photographing his sculptures, creating images that generally served as straightforward records of completed pieces or as documents of works in progress. Some were more dramatic, employing an unusual viewpoint or strong, raking light to emphasize a piece's particular texture: stone, wood, lead, or bronze. Moore often worked on his sculpture outdoors, and most of his photographs are set outside as well. Photography sometimes proved a useful tool in helping him decide how a work should be sited (the best height for viewing or its proximity to a grove of trees, for example). Over the years, Moore produced hundreds of photographs, creating a personal document of his long career. A selection of these images was featured in Henry Moore's Photographs of His Sculpture, an exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1985). The Cleveland Museum of Art also owns three sculptures by Moore. M.M. --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Contemporary Art Exhibit opening date: 1958-11-11T05:00:00 Contemporary Art Exhibit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11-December 31, 1958). title: Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965 opening date: 1966-05-20T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20-July 24, 1966). title: Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors opening date: 1995-11-22T05:00:00 Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Museum of Art, 1995-1996: Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors: November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996, no cat. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Since these are studies for sculpture, Moore wrote under the top row, "Figures for metal" and "Family Group" and below, "Terracotta or bronze." "I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas which there is not time enough to realize in sculpture. And I used drawings as a method of study and observation of natural forms (drawing from life, drawings of bones, shells, etc.). And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES