Figure by Henry Moore
Art Institute of Chicago

Figure

Henry Moore · 1937

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Buchholz Gallery, New York, by 1946; sold to Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., New York, by 1949; given to the Art Institute, 1950.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists’ Exhibition, January 28, 1939.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore, 1946, cat. 37, ill. 43, traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
  • Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Fantasy Exhibition, April 30—June 30, 1954.
  • The Arts Club of Chicago, Henry Moore, December 11, 1959–January 14, 1960, cat. 4 (ill.). as "Abstraction"

Literature

Published references

  • J. Stevens, “Yorkshire Artists’ Exhibition”, Yorkshire Post, January 26, 1939.
  • “Modern Art in Yorkshire: Leeds Exhibition Features”, Leeds Mercury, January 27, 1939.
  • “Yorkshire Art in Leeds”, Yorkshire Post, January 27, 1939.
  • “Yorkshire Art—Various”, Yorkshire Evening Post, January 27, 1939, ill. n.p.
  • “Problems in Pictures”, Yorkshire Observer, January 28, 1939.
  • Read, Herbert Edward, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings (1944; repr., Percy Lund, Humphries & Company, 1946 and 1949), fig 52a.
  • David Sylvester, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, 4th ed. (Percy Lund, Humphries & Company, 1957), vol. 1, cat. 181, ill. 102.
  • Melville, Robert, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, (Harry N. Abrams, 1970) cat. 163
  • Henry J. Seldis, Henry Moore in America, (Praeger, 1973), p. 272.

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