About This Artwork

Henry Spencer Moore
English, 1898-1986

Sculpture, 1935

Marble
14 3/4 x 22 x 11 in. (37.5 x 56 x 27.9 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Starrels, 1960.861

Sylvester 181 4th ed; Read 44b

Contemporary Art
Gallery 395B

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Arts Club of Chicago, Henry Moore, December 11, 1959–January 14, 1960, cat. 2, as "Abstraction"

Chicago, Renaissance Society, Chicago Homage to Henry Moore, December 1—22, 1967, cat. 45, as “Abstraction”.

London, Tate Gallery, Henry Moore Retrospective, July 17—September 22, 1968.

Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Palacio de Cristal, Parque de El Retiro, Henry Moore Exposición retrospectiva, Esculturas, Dibujos y Grabados 1921-1981, May-August 1981, cat. 102, ill. 65.

Publication History

Read, Herbert Edward, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings (1944; repr., Percy Lund, Humphries & Company, 1946 and 1949), fig. 44B.

David Sylvester, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, 4th ed. (Percy Lund, Humphries & Company, 1957), vol. 1, fig. 181.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Starrels, Chicago, IL, by 1957; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.