REVIEW 2017–19 CONTENTS 2–3 Chairman’s Foreword 4–5 Director’s Introduction 6–15 Henry Moore Studios & Gardens Collections and Exhibitions 16–27 Henry Moore Institute Exhibitions, Collections and Research 28–35 Henry Moore Archive and Digital Collections 36–43 Henry Moore Grants 44–47 Enterprise 48 Our Staff Henry Moore Studios & Gardens Trustees at 31 March 2019 Dane Tree House Nigel Carrington (Chairman) Perry Green Charles Asprey Much Hadham Martin Barden Hertfordshire Henry Channon SG10 6EE Celia Clear T: + 44 (0)1279 843 333 William Edgerley Antony Griffiths Henry Moore Institute Pamela Raynor The Headrow Dr Anne Wagner Leeds Peter Wienand West Yorkshire LS1 3AH Director T: + 44 (0)113 246 7467 Godfrey Worsdale www.henry-moore.org CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD This Review considers the period 2017-19, two to the city’s exceptional collections of sculpture years in which political uncertainty and increasing and to the Archive of Sculptors’ Papers. This challenges for arts funding have encouraged the has developed in parallel with the Institute’s Henry Moore Foundation to review its strategy outstanding library, covering all aspects of the and to reflect on the ways in which it delivers its history and practice of sculpture, ensuring that charitable aims. The Trustees and the Executive the combined offer is recognised as one of the have worked closely together to ensure our world’s finest for the study of the subject. The resources are being used to best effect and Institute’s research activities are also regularly to achieve meaningful impact in line with our delivered in partnership with many globally objectives: to care for the legacy of Henry Moore, significant scholars and their host-universities. and to enable the public appreciation of visual art This period has also seen the Foundation play and of sculpture in particular. We have identified a central role in the evolution of the Yorkshire a number of new ambitions and thought carefully Sculpture International, a collaboration that about the sustainability and long-term future of unites a wide range of partners in the region to the organisation. realise the country’s first dedicated festival of international sculpture. Alongside this forward planning, there have been many highlights during the two years considered Other initiatives and ideas are now frequently here. The summer of 2017 saw the success developed with partner organisations, other of Becoming Henry Moore, an exhibition that foundations and charities, whose objectives graced both our venues: Studios & Gardens in overlap with ours. With the Henry Moore Perry Green, Hertfordshire, and then the Henry Collectors Circle, the Foundation has formed Moore Institute in Leeds, where it contributed to a new group to further develop our working the continuing increase in visitor numbers. The relationship with those individuals who collect following year, the Institute staged the critically Moore’s work and share our commitment to it. acclaimed and long overdue exhibition of the As ever, our closest partner is the artist’s family. work of American artist, Senga Nengudi. Her first Henry Moore’s daughter Mary and her children in Europe, it then went on to tour to Edinburgh’s continue to be an invaluable support to the Fruitmarket Gallery, whilst a beautiful exhibition Foundation and its work. They are advocates, of Moore’s carvings, in wood and stone, was lenders and advisors to the Foundation, and this presented in Perry Green. is very much valued. The Foundation’s international activity has also I would like to end by thanking all the staff continued at pace. Henry Moore’s work has been working for the Foundation, in Leeds, in Perry the subject of exhibitions in Denmark, Germany, Green and around the world – they are a a three-city tour in Poland and, perhaps most talented and committed group of professionals. ambitiously, a major exhibition in partnership I would also like to acknowledge the enormous with the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la contribution of my fellow Trustees, each of whom Culture in Landerneau, France, seen by 80,000 is endlessly generous with their time and their visitors. In addition, the Foundation has loaned significant expertise. Whatever uncertainties enthusiastically to a number of group shows both preoccupy the wider world, the Henry Moore at home and abroad. Foundation continues to evolve in ways which enhance its ability to make a positive and Working with partner organisations has significant contribution to the field of sculpture. continued to bring many benefits, not least in Leeds, where our special relationship with Leeds Nigel Carrington Art Gallery has led to more significant additions Chairman 2 Installation view of Becoming Henry Moore at the Henry Moore Institute. Photo: Jerry Hardman-Jones DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION This review looks at the work of the Henry Work has been significantly progressed Moore Foundation over the past 24 months. on the online Catalogue Raisonné, now Our activities divide loosely into three parts; extending beyond 10,000 works, and firstly, Henry Moore Studios & Gardens in creating exceptional access to Henry Perry Green, where we look after Moore’s Moore’s work and supporting academic former home and several of the artist’s research internationally. This combines well studios, as well as a significant collection with the increasingly accessible archive of of his works, a substantial archive, and the artist’s life and work at Perry Green, the surrounding gardens and wider estate, which now makes available, in a much all of which are open to the public for a more conducive research environment, large part of the year. Secondly, the Henry a remarkable range of materials and Moore Institute in Leeds, amongst the most information to visiting academics. significant centres for the study of sculpture Conversations have been begun with the anywhere in the world; and thirdly, the higher education sector to ensure this Foundation’s Grants programme, through resource is used to best effect. which we award institutions and individuals financial assistance to deliver projects that This phase of activity also saw the help the Foundation to fulfil its charitable introduction of the Henry Moore Collectors objectives. During the years considered here, Circle and the Exceptional Award for my team and I have increasingly worked to Sculpture. The former is a group established find a common purpose in these activities to bring together those who are very closely and to further unify the Foundation under committed to the work of Henry Moore, a single identity. and who through collaboration can help the Foundation move forward. The latter is an In the following pages the range of our award that marks the achievement, in the achievements during the past two years can field of sculpture or its study, that has made be more fully understood, but by way of an an important contribution to the work with introduction, I would like to note a number which the Henry Moore Foundation of initiatives that have been undertaken to is concerned. help the Foundation prepare for the future. First amongst these is a redeveloped Five- These new initiatives have been delivered Year Plan, setting out our ambitions through alongside the ongoing programmes of to 2023. Determined in close consultation activity in exhibition making, research, with our Board of Trustees, the plan seeks to collections care and audience engagement build on developments of recent years, not that the Foundation is committed to least the new Archive building and the new delivering. My team has deployed great visitor centre in Perry Green. An ambition energy and our Trustees have given to improve our provision for learning at both invaluable guidance – for both, I am venues has continued to emerge, as we seek most grateful. to engage more fully with scholars at all Godfrey Worsdale levels, from school years to post-doctoral researchers. Accordingly, an Engagement Director of the Henry Moore Foundation Curator has now been appointed at the Henry Moore Institute. Henry Moore, Double Oval, 1966, bronze (LH 560). © The Henry Moore Foundation. Photo: David Randall 5 HENRY MOORE STUDIOS & GARDENS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS Henry Moore, Large Reclining Figure, 1983, fibreglass (LH 192b), situated by the river Élorn as part of the exhibition Henry Moore at Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc. © Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc, 2018. Photo: Nathalie Savale HENRY MOORE EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS To augment the 2018 season we 2017 and March 2019. Thirty-seven works STUDIOS & GARDENS AT PERRY GREEN programmed a series of artists’ talks. were assessed by the Panel with thirteen new These were given by Andy Holden, Stanley works added to the Henry Moore Catalogue COLLECTIONS AND Jones and Auberon Hedgecoe, and Tacita Raisonné, one of which was Ideas for Sculpture: EXHIBITIONS Our 2017 visitor season in Perry Green Dean – who had earlier in the year made a Mother and Child and Reclining Figures c.1929 was dominated by the exhibition Becoming work based on Moore’s flints, which was (HMF 745a), the drawing discovered in the Henry Moore, which was shown here The Henry Moore Collections and premiered at her groundbreaking trio of Gurlitt hoard, which featured on the BBC’s between 14 April–22 October before Exhibitions department has once again had exhibitions held at the National Gallery, Fake or Fortune? programme. travelling to the Institute in Leeds from a busy two years. Research on the artist National Portrait Gallery and Royal Academy. 30 November 2017–18 February 2018. has continued to be developed, published Planned to coincide with the fortieth As ever, our exhibition and events and communicated to the public through anniversary of the Foundation and examine programme was complemented by an a number of exhibitions, loans, events and the artistic beginnings of our founder, the extensive display of sculpture in the grounds displays throughout Europe and at Henry show received much critical acclaim in along with the opening of the studios and Moore Studios & Gardens in Perry Green.