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The sculpture was commissioned by the B. F. Ferguson monument fund. [4] In 1973, Henry Moore was quoted in Art Journal as saying:. It's a rather strange thing really but I'd already done the idea for this sculpture before Professor McNeill and his colleagues from the University of Chicago came to see me on Sunday morning to tell me about the whole proposition.
Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture is a functional bowstring equatorial sundial created in 1980 measuring approximately 13 feet (4.0 m).
Henry Moore Foundation LH 154a Image online [133] Carving [132] 1935 Walnut wood H 96.5 Henry Moore Foundation LH 158 Image online [134] Carving [132] 1935 African wonder stone H 15.2 LH 157 Image online [135] Sculpture [132] 1935 White marble L 55.9 Art Institute of Chicago: LH 161 Image online [136] Reclining Figure [137] 1936 Elm wood L 88.9 ...
The lead sculpture, called Mother and Child, was believed to have been made by Moore in 1939-40 and will be auctioned in March. ‘Unique and rare’ Henry Moore sculpture discovered on family’s ...
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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 × ...
Henry Moore's house, now the headquarters of the Henry Moore Foundation. The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity in England, established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore, and to promote the public appreciation of sculpture more generally.
In December 2005, thieves entered a courtyard at the Henry Moore Foundation and stole a cast of Moore's Reclining Figure 1969–70 (LH 608) – a 3.6 m (12 ft) long, 2.1-tonne bronze sculpture. Closed-circuit-television footage showed that they used a crane to lower the piece onto a stolen flatbed truck.