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Sculpting Lives S1E1, Barbara Hepworth
Sculpting Lives podcast transcript Series 1, Episode 1: Barbara Hepworth This document is an accessible transcript of the podcast audio. Subscribe and listen: https://audioboom.com/posts/7525504-sculpting-lives-barbara-hepworth [music] Sara Matson: She managed her brand, fair play. Eleanor Clayton: A normal person from Wakefield; A remarkable artist but a remarkable woman. Stephen Feeke: Hepworth was odd because she didn't see herself as a feminist at all and didn't see herself as “I'm a pioneering woman”. She just felt she was a pioneering sculptor. Barbara Hepworth: I was born with the ideas of certain shapes in my mind. At least I remember as far back as seven. The whole time one's been working at it and working, trying to simplify and make more mature, get the right scale, and develop it according to the development of society. [music] Jo Baring: Hello, and welcome to Sculpting Lives the podcast by me, Jo Baring. Sarah Victoria Turner: And me, Sarah Turner. Jo, this is our first podcast and episode. Why are we doing this? Jo Baring: We met in our professional lives. You are Deputy Director of the Paul Mellon Centre, and I am Director of the Ingram Collection. We have a shared interest in art, but we realised when we met that we are really fascinated by sculpture in particular. Also, during the course of our discussions, we realised that women artists and women sculptors, in general, are less commercially successful than men, less represented in national institutions, museums, possibly have less gallery shows and we really wanted to unpick why that happens. -
The Sculpture of the Écorché (Leeds, 7 Jun 14)
The Sculpture of the Écorché (Leeds, 7 Jun 14) Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK, Jun 7, 2014 Dr Rebecca Wade Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, June 7, 2014 The Sculpture of the Écorché Conference Saturday 7 June 2014 Henry Moore Institute, 10.30am-5.30pm This one-day conference takes the écorché as its subject, reconsidering the many ways that mod- els of the flayed figure have been understood from the sixteenth century to the present day. Across seven papers, the conference addresses the écorché variously as a teaching object for the education of sculptors, as a scientific model crucial to the understanding of anatomy, as a sculptu- ral process and as a sculptural object in its own right. The écorché has frequently operated across disciplinary boundaries and registers of respectabili- ty. Makers of wax écorchés in the eighteenth century, such as the Florentine Clemente Susini (1754-1814), were highly acclaimed during their lifetimes, with their work sought by prestigious collectors. By the nineteenth century, however, wax had come to be seen as a merely preparatory, or even a disreputable, medium for sculpture with its capacity for forensic detail and mimetic reproduction of bone, muscle and skin operating against the prevailing neoclassical tendency towards ideal form. As a result of this change in taste, the écorché in plaster of Paris became the primary teaching object for anatomical studies in European Academies and Schools of Art into the twentieth century. 10.30-11.00 Registration 11.00-11.10 Introduction 11.10-12.30 Panel one: Cigoli -
“A Former Director's Perspective on Provenance Research And
Collections: A Journal for Museums and Archives Professionals Provenance Research in American Museums “A Former Director’s Perspective on Provenance Research and Unprovenanced Cultural Property”[1] Dr. Gary Vikan Former Director, the Walters Art Museum Provenance research for a fine arts museum is neither a luxury contingent on adequate staffing with appropriate training, nor is it one of those onerous tasks only to be undertaken when imposed and funded from without. Rather, provenance research is integral to the day-to-day work of any art museum committed to scholarship – a facet of the analysis of a work of art every bit as important to revealing its story as are its iconographic, stylistic, and technical analyses. Such research is especially important for the Walters Art Museum which, perhaps to a greater extent than any other comprehensive fine arts museum in the country, is the legacy of dealer- collector interaction, to the complete exclusion of works professionally excavated in archaeological context.[2] Researching and reconstructing the collection’s past has been central to the museum’s work since it was opened to the public in 1934. My first project at the Walters when I arrived in 1985 as Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Medieval Art was to oversee the research and publication of a scholarly exhibition catalogue, Silver from Early Byzantium: The Kaper Koraon and Related Treasures (by Marlia Mundell Mango). Its focus was a treasure (the “Hama Treasure”) of unprovenanced Byzantine liturgical silver acquired by Henry Walters from Joseph Brummer in Paris in 1929 which was part of a larger hoard that almost certainly emerged from a clandestine dig near the town of Kurin in northern Syria in late 1908. -
Henry Moore's Bronze Form and Large Figure in a Shelter
Article: Henry Moore’s Bronze Form and Large Figure in a Shelter: Interpreting the original surface Author(s): Katrina Posner Source: Objects Specialty Group Postprints, Volume Seventeen, 2010 Pages: 83-93 Compilers: Carolyn Riccardelli and Christine Del Re © 2010 by The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works, 1156 15th Street NW, Suite 320, Washington, DC 20005. (202) 452-9545 www.conservation-us.org Under a licensing agreement, individual authors retain copyright to their work and extend publications rights to the American Institute for Conservation. Objects Specialty Group Postprints is published annually by the Objects Specialty Group (OSG) of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC). A membership benefit of the Objects Specialty Group, Objects Specialty Group Postprints is mainly comprised of papers presented at OSG sessions at AIC Annual Meetings and is intended to inform and educate conservation-related disciplines. Papers presented in Objects Specialty Group Postprints, Volume Seventeen, 2010 have been edited for clarity and content but have not undergone a formal process of peer review. This publication is primarily intended for the members of the Objects Specialty Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works. Responsibility for the methods and materials described herein rests solely with the authors, whose articles should not be considered official statements of the OSG or the AIC. The OSG is an approved division of the AIC but does not necessarily represent the AIC policy or opinions. HENRY MOORE’S BRONZE FORM AND LARGE FIGURE IN A SHELTER: INTERPRETING THE ORIGINAL SURFACE KATRINA POSNER ABSTRACT Henry Moore's final two sculptural series—Bronze Form and Large Figure in a Shelter—were fabricated in 1985-6 by welding together cast-bronze elements. -
HENRY MOORE: Late Large Forms
G A G O S I A N G A L L E R Y November 26, 2012 PRESS RELEASE GAGOSIAN GALLERY 522 WEST 21ST STREET T. 212.741.1717 NEW YORK, NY 10011 F. 212.741.0006 GALLERY HOURS: Tue–Sat: 10:00am–6:00pm HENRY MOORE: Late Large Forms Tuesday, November 20, 2012–Saturday, January 19, 2013 Everything I do, I intend to make on a large scale... Size itself has its own impact, and physically we can relate more strongly to a big sculpture than to a small one. —Henry Moore Gagosian Gallery, in collaboration with The Henry Moore Foundation, is pleased to present a major exhibition of large-scale sculptures by Henry Moore, which opened at Larry Gagosian’s Britannia Street location in London earlier this year. A pioneer of modern British sculpture, Moore engaged the abstract, the surreal, the primitive and the classical in vigorous corporeal forms that are as accessible and familiar as they are avant- garde. His monumental sculptures celebrated the power of organic forms at a time when traditional representation was largely eschewed by the vanguard art establishment. The overwhelming physicality of their scale and forceful presence promotes a charged relation between sculpture, site and viewer. Reclining Figure: Hand (1979) is immediately identifiable as a human form despite its modulated stylization. The rounded, cloud-like body, which contrasts with a “knife-edge” head derived from bird bone, attests to Moore’s more exploratory impulses when compared to Reclining Connected Forms (1969), where he alludes to body parts using the vocabulary of mechanical components. -
Artist in Surgery: Barbara Hepworth's Hospital Drawings
Artist in surgery: Skiagram (1949). Barbara Hepworth © Bowness Barbara Hepworth’s Hospital Drawings 26 The Pharos/Summer 2019 Don K. Nakayama, MD, MBA Dr. Nakayama (AΩA, University of California, San her artistic sensibilities. She spent much of that time in a Francisco, 1977) is Professor in the Department of children’s hospital in Southwest England observing sur- Surgery at University of North Carolina School of Medicine gery and interpreting the activity in the operating theatre at Chapel Hill, NC. through her art. An alternative title for the interval be- tween “artist in landscape” and “artist in society” might be arbara Hepworth (1903–1975), a modernist sculp- “artist in surgery.” tor of the mid-20th century known for her smooth, ovoid, fenestrated figures, created a series of life- Early years Blike drawings of surgeons and operating room (OR) scenes Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Hepworth remembered that capture, in her words, “the extraordinary beauty of riding with her father in his motorcar as he made his purpose and coordination between human beings all dedi- rounds as a county surveyor. Once they escaped the in- cated to the saving of life.” 1 dustrial boroughs where the earth seemed, in her words, Hepworth reimagined the surgeons and sisters (the “distant hills wreathed with indigo smoke that the very outdated term used in England for surgical scrub nurses earth seemed to be exhaling,” 1 their drive through the and technicians, then almost all women) as sculptural hilly landscape became a physical experience of “contours forms within surgical caps and gowns, engaged in com- of fulnesses and concavities, through hollows and over positions of coordinated effort. -
The Henry Moore Foundation Review Contents
Issue Number Fifteen Winter 2006 The Henry Moore Foundation Review Contents 3 Chairman’s Introduction Sir Ewen Fergusson 4 Director’s Report Tim Llewellyn 7 Financial Statement 2005 – 2006 8 Henry Moore Collections and Exhibitions Anita Feldman Bennet 11 Restoration of Hoglands David Mitchinson 12 Henry Moore Institute Penelope Curtis 15 Publishing Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute Martina Droth 16 Grants Programme 20 Publications 23 General Information Front Cover: Sheep Piece 1971–72 (LH 627) at Perry Green. Photo: Michael Phipps Tim Llewellyn in 1994 with Moore’s Large Figure in a Shelter 1985– 86 (LH 652c). Photo: Michel Muller Chairman’s Introduction This year has been rich in achievements and there is much Whatever has been achieved over the past year, I must to excite us for the future, but I start with the bad news. now look ahead to a most significant event. Next May, after While last year’s Review was being printed, thieves succeeded thirteen years of extraordinary activity on behalf of the in stealing a large bronze from Perry Green. No trace has Foundation, Timothy Llewellyn will be retiring from the since been found. It is hard to imagine a motive for this post of Director. audacious crime, which inevitably has influenced the Tim Llewellyn came to the Foundation early in 1994 conditions under which we and others will be able to show after a highly successful career at Sotheby’s. He brought sculpture to the public in the future. with him experience in management, a knowledge of finan- In spite of this discouraging beginning, the year has seen cial affairs and, above all, a genuine feel for works of art, many exciting projects brought to fruition, including the historic and contemporary. -
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Department of Drawings & Archives
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Department of Drawings & Archives Columbia University FINDING AID FOR THE GORDON BUNSHAFT (1909‐1990) ARCHITECTURAL RECORDS AND PAPERS, 1909‐1990 (bulk 1950‐1979) Collection Dates: 1909‐1990 (bulk 1950‐1979) Size: 8 linear feet (including oversize material) 8 manuscript boxes, 5 print boxes, 4 postcard boxes 10 volumes of bound material 160 drawings 5 archives boxes of printed materials Preferred Gordon Bunshaft architectural records and papers, Department of Citation: Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Acquisition This collection was a gift to Avery Library from Gordon Bunshaft in Information: 1988. Accession No.: 1988.005. Terms of Access: This collection is available for use by qualified readers by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives Reading Room, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please call (212) 854‐4110. Restrictions on Columbia University is providing access to the materials in the Use or Access: Libraryʹs collections solely for noncommercial educational and research purposes. The unauthorized use, including, but not limited to, publication of the materials without the prior written permission of Columbia University is strictly prohibited. All inquiries regarding permission to publish should be submitted in writing to the Director, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For additional guidance, see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/preservation/publicationsPolicy.html In addition to permission from Columbia University, permission of the copyright owner (if not Columbia University) and/or any holder of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights) may also be required for reproduction, publication, distributions, and other uses. -
Meet the Masters— Master Artists! Let’S Meet Our Masters!!
Meet the Masters— Master Artists! Let’s Meet Our Masters!! Henry Moore Charles Alston Henry Moore • (1898-1986)—He lived to be 88 years old! • British (English) painter and sculptor • He began painting and sculplting as a young child. • He worked for the government during the war as an artist and painted images of the war. Sculpting • To create figures or designs in three dimensions • To shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband" • To create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" King and Queen Knife Edge Two Pieces Draped Reclining Mother and Baby • Three important themes: 1. Mother & baby 2. Internal /external 3. Reclining person Family Group • He worked on this sculpture for 5 years!! Large Upright Internal External Form Double Oval Oval With Points Hill Arches Helmet Head Nuclear Energy Art can be anywhere… • Library plaza in Columbus, Indiana • 20 feet high • 12 feet wide • Weighs 5 ½ tons = Henry Moore at Work And now for our next artist… Charles Alston • American Artist • From North Carolina • 1907-1977 –70 years old when he died • Painter, sculptor and teacher of art • Liked to listen to jazz while making art Columbia College, New York City Cubism • Type of art where shapes are more important than details. • Use lots of geometric shapes Family Barn Landscape Kiosk with Landscape New York City Landscape Family Number 1 This picture shows a family. • Does this picture look realistic to you? • Do you think that the family members are close? • How many people are in the picture? • Where do you see lines? • Can you find straight lines and curved lines? • Where do you see shapes? • Can you find round shapes and square shapes? • Can you name some colors in the picture? Art is Everywhere Magic In Medicine Harlem Hospital, New York City Martin Luther King When he became President, Barack Obama put this in the National Portrait Gallery It is a sculpture done by Henry Moore. -
HMF Review 2015-17
Review 2015–17 Contents 3 Chairman’s Foreword 4 Director’s Introduction 8 The Henry Moore Foundation Masterplan 10 Henry Moore Studios & Gardens: Collections & Exhibitions 19 Henry Moore Institute: Research, Collections & Exhibitions 26 Grants 34 Publications 36 Our Staff Henry Moore Studios & Gardens Trustees at 31 March 2017 Dane Tree House Nigel Carrington (Chairman) Perry Green Charles Asprey Hertfordshire Henry Channon SG10 6EE Celia Clear T: + 44 (0)1279 843 333 William Edgerley Antony Griffiths Henry Moore Institute Dr Anne Wagner The Headrow Peter Wienand Leeds West Yorkshire to be appointed 21 September 2017 LS1 3AH Martin Barden T: + 44 (0)113 246 7467 Pamela Raynor www.henry-moore.org retired Laure Genillard David Wilson Director Godfrey Worsdale Photo: Sarah Mercer Chairman’s Foreword This Review looks back over the two-year I am heartened by the international demand period, 2015–17, which saw dramatic on our collections, which demonstrates developments in the national and global the ongoing relevance of Henry Moore’s political situation. In parallel, the Henry work today. The frequency and scale of Moore Foundation underwent its own period our international loans and exhibitions of change as a new Chairman oversaw the programme has demonstrated that Henry appointment of a new Director, and together, Moore’s legacy is an enduring one, and the the Trustees and the Executive worked team worked tirelessly to meet that demand, towards a new five year plan to set out the ensuring that our important collections were Foundation’s priorities through to 2021. used effectively. The highlight of the two years in question 2017 was also the fortieth anniversary of the was the completion of a major capital Henry Moore Foundation and it provided project at Perry Green, which positions the a moment of reflection. -
The New-Ham. Pshire
the new- ham.pshire Volume 69 Number 27 Friday January 19, 1979 Durham, N.H. Mills-may leave UNH for Whittier By Gary Langer 54, said, "I would be inclined to being considered to fill the vice shortJ.y before Christmgs, Mills UNH President Eugene Mills is do so." In that case, he said he president for academic affairs -said, adding that he announced .a finalist candidate for the presi would leave New Hampshire this post, which was left vacant by his candidacy yesterday because dency of Whittier College in summer. David Ellis last year. (See "I would rather have it known southern California; Mills an University System Board of related story, page 3.) than have it rumored." nounced yesterday afternoon. Trustees Chairman Richard Mills said he "wouldn't want to Whittier, a prestigious college Mills, who called himself a Morse said that if Mills leaves anticipate what provisions the of 1,100 to 1,200 students located "serious" caqdidate for the post UNH, "I assume he is going to Board of Trustees may make," 15 miles southeast of Los at the sma11, private liberal arts give us ample time to search for and added that he hopes to fill the Angeles, has been conducting a college, said he expects the and have a new president on vice presidency "in the im presidential search since last school's search committee to board before he leaves."· mediate weeks ahead." May, according to presidential reach its decision "in the very Though the University's vice Mills, who was chairman of secretary Charlotte Ramsey. -
HMF Review 2011-13
review 2011–13 henry moore foundation A Chairman’s Foreword Shorter in length but longer in the time span of membership include unlimited free access it covers, this review differs from its annual to Perry Green during the season, invitations predecessors. The decision to move to a to private views and special Friends’ events biennial publication allows the Foundation to both there and at the Henry Moore Institute report more effectively on activities, including in Leeds, newsletters and email updates, and grants, which span more than one year. And discounts on merchandise. by focussing on the more salient features of Among the personnel changes which took 2011–13, with fewer statistics and more illus- place in 2011–13, the retirement of Charles trations, it is intended to convey a more vivid Joint after 17 years of service as Head of impression of the Foundation’s achievements Finance and Administration was undoubt- on site, at Perry Green and at the Institute edly the most significant. He was succeeded in Leeds, and further afield, in this country by Lesley Wake who joined the Foundation and abroad. The review is also fully online at from Arts and Business to become its first www.henry-moore.org, together with more Chief Operating Officer. We also said goodbye detailed information, including a full list of to Annabel Friedlein, our first Head of the grants made during the period. In addition, Communications, who did so much in the four the Charity Commission’s website carries years she was with us to rethink our place in the Foundation’s latest Annual Report and the new digital world in which we operate.