1958.24: Study for the Northampton Madonna verso: Sketch of Woman Reclining in a Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1958.24

People

Henry Moore, British (Castleford, W. Yorks, U.K. 1898 - 1986 Much Hadham, Herts, U.K.)

Title

Study for the Northampton Madonna verso: Sketch of Woman Reclining in a Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1943

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297160

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and orange crayon, transparent crayon, black ink, gray-black wash over graphite on off-white laid paper; verso: graphite

Dimensions

22.5 x 17.6 cm (8 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Curt Valentin, New York, New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs (L. 2091), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1946, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Copyright

© Henry Moore Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1958

Object Number

1958.24

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Commentary

From a dismantled sketchbook of studies for the sculpture "Madonna and Child," 1943-44, St. Matthew's, Northampton. The Henry Moore Foundation suggests that the date of this drawing could be either 1943 or 1942 (as inscribed).

Publication History

• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 74, repr.
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 306, p. 262, repr.
• Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49, Lund Humphries (London, 2001), no. AG 43.81 HMF 2172, repr.
• Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form, Pearson Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2004), repr. as fig. 2.53 on p.73, in b/w

Exhibition History

• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• Henry Moore: Mother and Child, Hofstra University, 09/01/1987 - 11/21/1987; Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 12/01/1987 - 01/25/1988; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 02/06/1988 - 04/17/1988

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