Three Seated Figures

Prints and Drawings

1940

Henry Spencer Moore
English, 1898-1986

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henry Moore
Title: Three Seated Figures
Place: England (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1940
Medium: Crayon and watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 27.8 × 38.1 cm (11 × 15 in.)
Credit Line: A gift from Mr. Joel Starrels
Reference Number: 1961.1191
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London

Anne Garrould, Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49, 3 (London, 2001), no. AG 40.79/HMF 1727 (ill.).

Chicago, Arts Club, “Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings from Chicago Collections,” December 11, 1959-January 14, 1960, cat. 58.
London, Tate Gallery, “The Drawings of Henry Moore,” June 28-August 28, 1978, cat. 142; traveled to Toronto, Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, November 5-December 31, 1977; Iwaki City, Ishikawa, Shimin Art Gallery Museum, January 21-February 12, 1978; Kanazawa City, Ishikawa, Prefectural Museum, February 18-March 26, 1978; Kumamoto Municipal Museum, April 1-April 23, 1978; and Tokyo, the Seibu Gallery, April 28-May 31, 1978.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Henry Moore: Sixty Years of His Art,” 1983, p. 50.
London, The British Museum, “The Shelter Drawings,” 1988-1989.

Joel Starrels, Chicago, by 1959 [Chicago 1959]; given to the Art Institute, 1961.

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