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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

2024 Woking, The Lightbox Henry Moore in Colour

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2024 Woking, The Lightbox Henry Moore in Colour
2024 Woking, The Lightbox Henry Moore in Colour
2024 Woking, The Lightbox Henry Moore in Colour

2024 Woking, The Lightbox Henry Moore in Colour

27 July 2024 - 03 November 2024
This exhibition presents a group of over 30 drawings by Henry Moore, animated by a striking vibrancy. From the life studies of his student days through to the casual drawings of his late years, these works reveal a deep appreciation of the unique characteristics and possibilities of colour in drawing, expressing a visual imagination that both integrates and enhances Moore’s three-dimensional practice.
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Best-known as one of the most influential and innovative sculptors of the modern era, Henry Moore was also a prolific draughtsman, producing nearly 7,500 drawings over seven decades. Drawing provided Moore with a versatile tool, suitable to develop ideas for sculpture but also independently of it. While for him sculpture was primarily an art of form and space in which colour did not have a particularly prominent role, in his drawings Moore explored the expressive potential of painterly techniques and a much broader palette.

By focusing on this particular aspect of his creative output, Henry Moore in Colour casts new light on this lesser known but enduring aspect of Moore’s art. From the life studies of his student days through to the casual drawings of his late years, these works reveal a deep appreciation of the unique characteristics and possibilities of colour in drawing, expressing a visual imagination that both integrates and enhances Moore’s practice in three dimensions. The exhibition includes examples of his best-known works, such as the large ‘presentation’ drawings from the 1930s and the wartime Shelter drawings, as well as less frequently seen later works. Curated by Sebastiano Barassi, Head of Collections & Programmes, it is a collaboration between the Henry Moore Foundation and The Lightbox Woking.
photo: Sarah Mercer
08 June 2024 - 22 September 2024
Exhibition Info: This focused exhibition in the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery considers Henry Moore’s celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist’s fascination with images of the wall, during and immediately after World War II.
2024 Perry Green, Sculpture, Inspiration and our Natural Worlds
28 March 2024 - 03 November 2024
Exhibition Info: In 2024, a selection of over twenty of Moore’s bronzes will be displayed in the landscape adjacent to the studios where he developed his ideas. Natural and human forms can be seen to have inspired sculptures across all of Moore’s most iconic themes: the mother and child, the reclining figure, and the juxtaposition of internal / external forms. A number of Moore’s multi-part reclining figures, where he asks the viewer to imaginatively piece together the body, are joined by some of his purest organic abstractions in which we can trace the journey from handheld pebble to monumental work.
2022-23 St Albans/Doncaster, Henry Moore: Drawing in the Dark
16 December 2022 - 26 August 2023
Exhibition Info: Drawing in the Dark is the largest exhibition to date of Moore’s coalmining drawings, completed in 1942 for the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. When Moore was asked to record the coalminers working to power wartime Britain, he chose to visit the mine his father had worked in, Wheldale Colliery in Castleford, where he spent a week drawing from observation. Subsequently, he worked from memory to create the remaining drawings which were all completed within six months. This fascinating body of work reveals the back-breaking labour endured by nearly 3/4 million miners as they made their vital contribution to Britain's war effort, while also providing new insights into Moore’s life and artistic process.
photo: Jo Hounsome
3 May to 8 September 2024
Exhibition Info: Henry Moore in Miniature includes over 60 of Moore’s works that can fit in the hand. It features maquettes for some of his best-known public sculptures, alongside lesser-known works, including the display for the very first time in a museum exhibition of a recently discovered early lead cast of Mother & Child.
photo: Rob Harris
01 April 2022 - 30 October 2022
Exhibition Info: Henry Moore: The Sixties presents a fascinating insight into Moore’s life and work during this pivotal decade in his career. The exhibition reveals the dramatic shift in his working practices that enabled him to work on an increasingly monumental scale; his move towards greater abstraction; and the enormous global demand for his work during this period, along with the controversy this generated. The exhibition feautures sculptures, drawings, graphics and archive material drawn entirely from the Henry Moore Foundation’s collection.
Installation view of Henry Moore: Configuration at the Henry Moore Institute 2021. photo: John …
17 September 2021 - 23 January 2022
Exhibition Info: Configuration brings together a small, focused selection of sculpture, drawings and collages highlighting Henry Moore’s ceaseless investigation into form, material and volume. Throughout his lifetime, Moore collected objects such as bones, stones, shells and driftwood which he would turn over in his hands, build up, press into clay, cast, or photograph. This haptic practice saw Moore humanise these forms, and capture their relationship to the body both physical and imaginative.
photo: Stathis Mamalakis
12 September 2024 - 26 October 2024
Exhibition Info: Now open at Gagosian’s Athens gallery until 26 October, Henry Moore and Greece is the first exhibition of Moore’s work in Greece for twenty years.
2022 Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, A Life in Art: Lucy Wertheim
11 June 2022 - 25 September 2022
Exhibition Info: Lucy Carrington Wertheim (1883-1971) supported many public galleries and young artists, and bequeathed over 50 works to Towner Art Gallery. This exhibition will bring together paintings, drawings and sculptures from her disbanded collection for the first time in 50 years alongside works exhibited in the Wertheim Gallery, which she established in 1930. The exhibition includes Moore’s Head of a Girl which was shown at the Wertheim Gallery’s opening exhibition.
1968 London, Tate Gallery, Henry Moore
17 July 1968 - 22 September 1968
Exhibition Info: Retrospective exhibition of sculptures and drawings organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and held at the Tate Gallery in honour of Moore's 70th birthday.
photo: Hannah Higham 2020
05 April 2023 - 29 October 2023
Exhibition Info: In 2023, more than twenty monumental bronzes inspired by natural and human forms are displayed in the landscape at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, adjacent to the studios where Moore developed ideas. Multi-part reclining figures are joined by some of his purest organic abstractions and works exploring his most iconic themes, the mother and child, the reclining figure, and the juxtaposition of internal and external forms.