Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
2008-11, New York, Atlanta & Denver Botanical Gardens, Moore in America
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2008-11, New York, Atlanta & Denver Botanical Gardens, Moore in America
24 May 2008 - 31 January 2011
Moore in America was a tour of twenty major large-scale sculptures which were positioned within three major US botanical gardens: New York, Atlanta and Denver. It was the largest outdoor exhibition of Henry Moore’s sculpture ever seen at a single location in America.
Moore took much of his inspiration from the natural world, and some of the bones, flints and other items that stimulated his imagination were shown to augment the main exhibition.
Henry Moore intended that his large scale works of sculpture be displayed in expansive landscapes so that their monumentality could be appreciated from many perspectives, in great varieties of light, as well as through the changing seasons. The botanical gardens, with their diverse flora, fitted this objective perfectly, offering a wide and varied backdrop and providing the appropriate scale and beauty to complement his sculpture.
Moore took much of his inspiration from the natural world, and some of the bones, flints and other items that stimulated his imagination were shown to augment the main exhibition.
Henry Moore intended that his large scale works of sculpture be displayed in expansive landscapes so that their monumentality could be appreciated from many perspectives, in great varieties of light, as well as through the changing seasons. The botanical gardens, with their diverse flora, fitted this objective perfectly, offering a wide and varied backdrop and providing the appropriate scale and beauty to complement his sculpture.
31st May - 18th August (London), 20th November 2012 - 19th January 2013 (New York)
29 March 2013 - 27 October 2013
At the Henry Moore Studios and Gardens in 2025 twenty-five of Moore’s sculptures, including two new loans, will be displayed in the landscape where the artist lived and worked for more than forty years. The works span themes Moore explored for the length of his career; the reclining figure, mother and child and internal/external forms.
15 September 2007 - 30 March 2008
