MOORE, HENRY

born July 30, 1898, Castleford, Yorkshire, Eng. died Aug. 31, 1986, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, Eng. English sculptor whose organically shaped, abstract, bronze and stone figures constitute the major 20th-century manifestation of the humanist tradition in sculpture. Much of his work is monumental, and he was particularly well known for a series of reclining nudes. Among his major commissions were sculptures for UNESCO headquarters in Paris (195758), for the Lincoln Center in New York City (196365), and for the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1978). Additional reading Roger Berthoud, The Life of Henry Moore (1987); and Herbert Read, Henry Moore (1965), are biographies. The definitive catalogs of Moore's sculptures are Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 6 vol. (194488), with some volumes appearing in later editions, and Henry Moore, Catalogue of the Graphic Work, ed. by Grald Cramer, Alistair Grant, and David Mitchinson, 4 vol. (197386). Important monographs are Will Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore (1960); David Finn, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Environment (1976); Alan G. Wilkinson, The Drawings of Henry Moore (1977); Stephen Spender and Geoffrey Shakerley, Henry Moore: Sculptures in Landscape (1979); Henry Moore Sculpture, ed. by David Mitchinson (1981); W.J. Strachan, Henry Moore: Animals (1983); and Ann Garrould, Henry Moore: Drawings (1988).