Why did Henry Moore make the family group?

Family Group was Moore’s first larger scale bronze sculpture. Originally designed for a school in Stevenage, the piece has been seen as symbolising aspects of the values of the post-war era of austerity and reconstruction.

When did Henry Moore make family group?

1940s
Family Group is one of at least fourteen small models made by Henry Moore in the mid-1940s, each of which presents a family group in different poses and configurations. This sculpture presents a mother, father and two children (fig.

Where is the family group sculpture located?

Stevenage
Family Group/Locations

What did Henry Moore join when he was only 18 years old?

Civil Service Rifles regiment
Upon turning eighteen, Moore volunteered for army service in the First World War. He was the youngest man in the Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles regiment and was injured in 1917 in a gas attack, on 30 November at Bourlon Wood, during the Battle of Cambrai.

Did Henry Moore go to art school?

Royal College of Art
Leeds Arts UniversityCastleford Academy
Henry Moore/Education

Did Henry Moore have a child?

Mary Moore
Henry Moore/Children

Where did Henry Moore make the family group?

Family Group, LH 269, Tate Gallery. Family Group (LH 269) is a sculpture by Henry Moore. It was his first large-scale bronze sculpture, and his first large bronze with multiple castings. Made for Barclay School in Stevenage, it evolved from drawings in the 1930s, through a series of models to bronze castings in 1950–51.

When did Henry Moore make his first sculpture?

Family Group (Moore) Family Group (LH 269) is a sculpture by Henry Moore. It was his first large-scale bronze sculpture, and his first large bronze with multiple castings. Made for Barclay School in Stevenage, it evolved from drawings in the 1930s, through a series of models to bronze castings in 1950–51.

When did Henry Moore make his clay model?

The council’s education officer Henry Morris approached Moore again in 1944, and Moore made a small clay model in 1945, now held by the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire.

Where can I find the Henry Moore cast?

Three of the five castings from the 1950s are still owned by the original owners, Barclay School, the Tate Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The others are held by the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan, and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, with a later cast at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire .

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