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10 things to know about the life and work of Henry Moore

‘Even when I was a student I was totally preoccupied by sculpture in its full spatial richness’ — an overview of the great British sculptor’s life and career, illustrated with works offered at Christie’s

Henry Moore, circa 1968. Photo: © AGIP / Bridgeman Images

Born on 30 July 1898, Henry Moore was the seventh child of a Yorkshire coal miner

Henry Moore’s father wanted a better life for his children than one spent working in the mines, and encouraged them to pursue higher education. He was strongly opposed to Moore’s decision to become a sculptor — a job he regarded as manual labour. Moore initially took his father’s advice and trained as a teacher, working at the primary school he had attended in Castleford.

Moore was gassed at the Battle of Cambrai on 30 November 1917

After recuperating, he spent most of the remainder of the war as a physical training instructor. However, his war service entitled him to an ex-serviceman’s grant

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Scientist of the Day - Henry Moore

Sheep Piece, bronze sculpture by Henry Spencer Moore, cast 1, 1971-72, Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. (art.nelson-atkins.org)

Henry Spencer Moore, a British sculptor, was born July 30, 1898, in Yorkshire. Moore is one of the most famous of modern sculptors, and is best known for his large reclining figures, mostly cast in bronze and displayed outside. His work has been called semi-abstract, and that seems to be as good a term as any, because his forms seem recognizable, even if they often are not. There would be little reason for including him in a series of scientific anniversaries, were it not for two exceptional sculptures, one of which reposes right here in Kansas City.

Henry Moore with Reclining Figure, photograph by Bill Brandt, 1948, Henry Moore Foundation (tate.org.uk)

In 1972, the Nelson-Atkins Museum acquired the first cast of a bronze sculpture called Sheep Piece. It is a Kansas City favorite and sits on a small knoll on the grounds of the museum, in the Donal

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Who is Henry Moore?

Henry Moore is famous for his sculptures of people with bumpy forms and hollow spaces in their bodies. His sculptures also sometimes have holes right through them! As well as bumps and hollows he used flowing, abstract shapes in his sculptures.

Look at this sculpture. It is of a figure lying down. Can you see its head? What about its knees? Where's its stomach? There's a hole where its stomach should be!

Most of his sculptures are female figures, some are families and some just faces.

Henry Moore was born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England in 1898. He was a teacher and was in the army before going to Leeds School of Art to learn to become a sculptor.

He was inspired by nature. He sketched the hills near where he grew up and collected interesting stones, animal bones and tree roots on his regular walks in the countryside. He used these bumpy, twisted natural forms to inspire his sculptures. Can you see the inspiration of nature in his sculptures?

During World War II, he was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to make drawings of pe