Sculptor, printmaker

Biography

1898 Born in Castleford, Yorkshire

1916 Began studying to be a teacher

1917 Joined the Army and served on the French front. Gassed at the Battle of Cambrai

1919 Returned to teaching. Enrolled at Leeds School of Art and studied there for two years

1921-23 Won scholarship to study sculpture at Royal College of Art, London. Visited Paris for the first time

1924 Granted Royal College of Art Travelling Scholarship. Appointed instructor in sculpture school for a term of 7 years

1929 Married Irina Radetsky, student at Royal College of Art school of painting

1930 Became member of Seven & Five Society

1932 Appointed head of new sculpture department at Chelsea School of Art

1933 Member of avant-garde group Unit One

1934 Visited Spain

1936 Signed Manifesto against British policy of non-intervention in Spain

1940 Moved to Hertfordshire when London studio damaged by bombing. Appointed official war artist until 1942

1941 Appointed Trustee of Tate Gallery, London

1953 Visited Brazil and Mexico

1955 Appointed to the order of the Companions of Honour. Appointed Trustee of the National Gallery, London

1963 Awarded member of the Order of Merit

1965 Bought house at Forte dei Marmi, near Carrara

1974 Opening of the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

1977 Formed the Henry Moore Foundation

1978 Major donation of sculpture to the Tate Gallery, London

1982 Opening The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, a new extension of the Leeds City Art Gallery

1986 Died at Much Hadham, Hertfordshire

Bibliography

1934 Herbert Read published monograph on Henry Moore's work

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1928 Warren Gallery, London

1931 Leicester Gallery, London

1941 First retrospective at Temple Newsam House, Leeds

1943 Buchholz Gallery, New York

1946 Retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, New York

1951 Retrospective at Tate Gallery, London

1968 Retrospective at Tate Gallery, London, on occasion of his 70th birthday

1972 Retrospective at Forte de Belvedere, Florence

1978 80th birthday exhibitions at Serpentine Gallery, London and in Kensington Gardens, London and the City Art Gallery, Bradford

Selected Group Exhibitions

1926 St. George's Gallery, London

1936 International Surrealist Exhibition at New Burlington Galleries, London

1938 Exhibition of Abstract Art at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Collections

Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museum; Ulster Museum, Belfast; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; City Art Gallery, Brighton; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow; Bankfield Museum, Halifax; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; City Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Tate Gallery, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; British Museum, London; Imperial War Museum, London; City Art Gallery, Manchester; Northampton Museums and Art Gallery; as well as many more museums worldwide

Awards

1948 International Prize for Sculpture at XXIVth Biennale, Venice

1953 International Prize for sculpture 2nd Biennale, Sao Paolo

Public commissions

From 1950 onwards, Moore carried out a great many public commissions including a monumental stone carving for UNESCO headquarters in Paris