About This Artwork
Henry Spencer Moore
English, 1898-1986
Figure, 1937
Marble
21 x 14 x 9 in. (53.4 x 35.6 x 22.9 cm)
Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., 1950.1521
Sylvester 181 4th ed; Read 52a
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists’ Exhibition, January 28, 1939.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore, 1946, cat. 37, ill. 43, traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Fantasy Exhibition, April 30—June 30, 1954.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Henry Moore, December 11, 1959–January 14, 1960, cat. 4 (ill.). as "Abstraction"
Publication History
J. Stevens, “Yorkshire Artists’ Exhibition”, Yorkshire Post, January 26, 1939.
“Modern Art in Yorkshire: Leeds Exhibition Features”, Leeds Mercury, January 27, 1939.
“Yorkshire Art in Leeds”, Yorkshire Post, January 27, 1939.
“Yorkshire Art—Various”, Yorkshire Evening Post, January 27, 1939, ill. n.p.
“Problems in Pictures”, Yorkshire Observer, January 28, 1939.
Read, Herbert Edward, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings (1944; repr., Percy Lund, Humphries & Company, 1946 and 1949), fig 52a.
David Sylvester, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, 4th ed. (Percy Lund, Humphries & Company, 1957), vol. 1, cat. 181, ill. 102.
Melville, Robert, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, (Harry N. Abrams, 1970) cat. 163
Henry J. Seldis, Henry Moore in America, (Praeger, 1973), p. 272.
Ownership History
Buchholz Gallery, New York, by 1946; sold to Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., New York, by 1949; given to the Art Institute, 1950.