Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nuclear Energy (1964–1966) (LH 526) is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore on the campus of the University of Chicago at the site of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. The first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was created here on December 2, 1942. [ 2 ]
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.
Oval with Points is a series of enigmatic abstract sculptures by British sculptor Henry Moore, made in plaster and bronze from 1968 to 1970, from a 14-centimetre (5.5 in) maquette in 1968 (LH 594) made in plaster and then cast in bronze, through a 110-centimetre (43 in) working model in 1968–1969 (LH 595) also made plaster and then cast in bronze, to a full-size 332-centimetre (131 in ...
Specifically on Nuclear Energy, Roger Berthoud's biography of Moore has a section on this sculpture, which IIRC has comments both on the history of the sculpture not yet covered in the article, and on the reception of the work. I think that basing the structure of the article off of that of recognised sculpture articles is a good plan.
The artist's copy was lent in 2011 by the Henry Moore Foundation to the Snape Maltings, in Suffolk. [3] Others are at the Art Institute of Chicago (illustrated), in an outdoor setting at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO. [4] [5] These sculptures measure 16 feet 3 inches × 56 1 ⁄ 4 inches × 56 1 ⁄ 4 inches (495.3 × 142.88 × ...
One of nine casts of Moore's Working Model for Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 (LH654) sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York in May 2015 for $2.89 million. [4] One of the seven casts from the collection of Philip and Muriel Berman sold for $7.5 million in November 2004 at Sotheby's in New York City.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Pointing Figure with Child, 1966, on display at Churchill College, Cambridge. Bernard Meadows (19 February 1915 – 12 January 2005) was a British modernist sculptor.Meadows was Henry Moore's first assistant; then part of the Geometry of Fear school, a loose-knit group of British sculptors whose prominence was established at the 1952 Venice Biennale; a professor of sculpture at the Royal ...