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Why was Old Flo Other public art to in east ? see in Canary Wharf One of east London’s most famous residents is back – and on Henry Moore display in Canary A great artist’s life She’s Wharf, Tower Hamlets Henry Moore is one of Britain’s most famous artists and his now back! sell for millions of pounds 1 Early days Although this ’s name is Draped Seated Henry Moore was born in 1898, in Castleford in Woman, most local people . He loved art but his father, a coal miner, Henry Moore, in 1928, working on West Wind for ’s new headquarters know her as Old Flo. thought it would be difficult to earn a living as an artist. So, he encouraged his son to become a Created by Henry Moore, she schoolteacher. Moore really didn’t like it! hard and finished the two-year drawing course Aged 18, Moore joined the army to fight in in just one year. is world-famous and has had World War One. Many colleagues and friends lost Moore went on to further studies at the Royal a really interesting life. This their lives. Moore himself was injured in a gas College of Art in London and soon became known book tells the story of: attack in 1917. When the war ended, he applied as a modern, daring sculptor. In 1928, he was asked • What inspired Henry Moore for a grant to go to School of Art. He to create carved stonework for the exterior of the was accepted in 1919 and could finally follow his new London Underground headquarters. It was his to create her childhood dream of becoming an artist. He worked first paid commission and you can still see it today. • Where she was first displayed and what people thought 3 International fame • How she went to Yorkshire… and stayed for 20 years Shortly after World War Two, some of Moore’s sculptures • And much, much more! were shown in America and Italy – they created huge interest. Before long, he was one of the world’s most famous artists. Today, his works can be In 1943, Henry Moore was asked by a news found in most major cities. team to re-enact how he discovered people Moore died in 1986, aged 88, using tube stations as bomb shelters at his home in Perry Green, . Visitors there can 2 Growing fame... see his studio as he left it, and Henry Moore in his studio and war admire many of his works in a in 1970. Beside him is the beautiful countryside setting. huge skull of an elephant In 1928, Moore met Irina Radetsky – a year later, they married. Meanwhile, his Moore’s art reputation as an influential and challenging artist Henry Moore’s most famous continued to grow, right up sculptures depict human bodies, to the point when World especially those of women. War Two broke out in 1939. These artworks don’t reproduce In 1940, Moore discovered the human form exactly but use Reclining Figure, 1959-64, made from elm wood Londoners were using tube shapes that suggest it. This is stations as emergency often referred to as . his work. He once explained, Here at Canary Wharf, we on loan from Tower Hamlets bomb shelters. His drawings Moore took inspiration from “The hole connects one side to of families sheltering near the world around him, from such the other, making it immediately are proud to display Draped Council – we are looking after train tracks were very objects as stones, twigs, bones more three-dimensional. A Seated Woman for all to see. her until 2022. Please come powerful and furthered his and skulls. He is also known for hole can itself have as much This important sculpture is and visit her again and again! reputation as an artist. the “holes” or empty spaces in shape meaning as a solid mass.” 2 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 3 Why bronze? From Bronze is a mixture of copper and tin. This makes it strong but not brittle, so it doesn’t break easily. sketch to Also, bronze doesn’t rust, so sculptures still look impressive after hundreds of years. Finally, bronze sculpture expands just before it sets, pushing into every area of the Draped Seated Woman mould. This ensures every How Henry Moore created in Canary Wharf on a last detail is captured. Draped Seated Woman cold winter’s day

Step 1 – Drawing Step 4 – Full-sized Early in his career, Moore drew It was time to make a full-sized rough sketches before starting version – it measured over 2m Londoners using a tube a sculpture. They helped him tall. This was also built around an station in 1940 to shelter think how an artwork might armature, though one now made from a bombing raid look. These sketches (right) are from wood and wire. It was from 1953 to 1956. They show covered in scrim, a bandage-like Moore is considering a seated material coated in dried plaster. figure. They are unusual as, by This required wetting before Where did the this time, Moore had stopped being put in position. Further making sketches and would Henry Moore considers a new sculpture; plaster was spread with a trowel. instead work immediately on a Figure Studies (1953-56) Moore applied finishing touches idea come from? maquette (see Step 2). with chisels, files and sandpaper.

In September 1940, returned repeatedly to observe Step 2 – Maquette Step 5 – Finished during World War Two, the sheltering Londoners, and work in bronze away. It was now a complete drew many more scenes. Artists often make a small model sculpture... but not yet finished. British cities were The works of art, known as of a sculpture before starting a In 1958, the full-sized model was bombed almost daily. This The Shelter Drawings, were very full-sized artwork. This is known sent to a specialist foundry in Moore explained why: “I like time was known as the popular. They demonstrated how as a maquette. In 1956, Moore Paris. Their task was to use the working on all my bronzes Londoners were defiant in the made a maquette of a seated full-sized model to create a small after they come back Blitz. London faced huge face of the bombing raids. figure by creating an internal number of bronze casts, through damage and loss of life Do the poses of those wire frame and then applying a process called lost-wax casting. from the foundry.” sheltering families and the way layer after layer of plaster. As First, a wax copy was made of He applied chemicals to get One night, Henry Moore and their clothes wrap their bodies the plaster dried, he moulded it the full-sized model. This was exactly the right colour and finish his wife were returning home seem familiar? These elements into the desired shape. Finally, then repeatedly coated with a on the surface (known as the by London Underground. They can also be seen in Draped when the plaster had set, he used sand-like substance known as patina). Moore felt it was only found the platform packed Seated Woman – even though his tools to add details to the face slurry, until there was a good, when he had got the patina right with men, women and children, Moore didn’t start sculpting her and other parts of the figure. This thick coating all over the wax. that the sculpture was complete. sheltering from air raids above. for another 16 years. maquette is about 15cm wide. Next, the slurry-covered model Families were huddled together, was placed in a very hot kiln. The wrapped up to keep warm. high temperatures hardened the When he got home, Moore Moore said: “I have Step 3 – Working model slurry. At the same time, the wax drew the scene from memory. never seen so many melted and drained away through Over the following nights, he When Moore was happy with a special openings. All that was left reclining figures… maquette, he would create a slightly was a hard, empty shell in the Children, fast asleep, larger working model. This was also shape of Draped Seated Woman. with the trains roaring made from plaster but was built Due to the large size of this past only a couple of over a stronger wire frame, known sculpture, the next stage was as an armature. At this stage, Moore carried out in sections. To cast a yards away” changed small details such as the section, very hot, liquid bronze folds of the clothes and positions was poured into one part of the of the arms, until it was exactly hard shell, and left to cool. as he wanted. He also liked to When the bronze had set, the photograph the working model shell was broken away to reveal with sky or trees in the background. the moulding. All the bronze Henry Moore makes adjustments to the Henry Moore visits a foundry to inspect Shelter Scene: Two Seated Figures It helped him visualise what the pieces were welded together working model of Draped Seated Woman the cast of one of his sculptures (1941) by Henry Moore full-sized sculpture would look like. and any visible joins smoothed 4 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 5 Art Lucky London!

London still displays some of the Draped Seated for the Woman works of art purchased by the LCC. 1 Woman And there are other Henry Moore and Fish Henry Moore, people , 1951, 1957-8 sculptures to check out, too! and Antonio Lopez Reche, 2006 Canary Wharf Park, London Draped Seated Woman This sculpture by Frank Dobson 6 originally had a working that was bought with the idea Large supplied drinking water. Unfortunately, over the years, it was vandalised of bringing great art to beyond repair. Spanish sculptor the general public Henry Moore, 1968 Antonio Lopez Reche made a copy, which can be found King’s Cross station, London In the 1950s, London was still in Millwall Park on the One of the reasons this sculpture . 2 Large recovering from World War Two. was chosen for this very busy area Standing More than 1.2 million homes in King’s Cross is that it is almost Figure: Knife Edge had been damaged and bomb impossible to sit on it. In the past, some works of art have Henry Moore, 1961 craters could be found in most become places for weary of the capital’s neighbourhoods. Children playing on a bomb site in 1950s London travellers to rest Park, London their legs! Many children used abandoned This bronze work was cast in the same bomb sites as playgrounds! period as Draped Seated Woman. It is now sited a short distance from the Isle The everyone the chance to enjoy art he would provide a sculpture. of Dogs. Just walk through the foot (LCC), which ran the capital, was without having to visit a gallery. He suggested Draped Seated tunnel at , under slowly rebuilding the city, with So, in 1956, the LCC launched Woman and agreed to sell the the and up into – and new schools, housing estates, the Patronage of the Arts work of art for a significantly there it is. parks and libraries. Scheme. The idea was to buy or reduced price of £7000. As well as organising the commission art and then place It was a lot of money at the repair of old buildings and the it in public spaces so that it time and is equivalent to about construction of new ones, the could be enjoyed by everyone. £150,000 today. But, given the LCC wanted to lift Londoners’ The scheme ran for nine years. sculpture is now worth around spirits. One of the ways the LCC In 1961, as part of the scheme, £18 million, maybe that wasn’t aimed to do this was by giving the LCC asked Henry Moore if such a bad deal!

Rain pain 3 The Bull As well as being a great Robert Clatworthy, 1957 artist, Henry Moore also had to be very practical. For Roehampton, London This bronze sculpture was one of example, on Draped Seated the first artworks commissioned Woman he realised, “This by the LCC in 1957, though it big, draped seated figure 5 The Arch wasn’t displayed on the Guy Alton Estate until 1961. was going to be shown out Henry Moore, 1979-80 4 the Gorilla You can still see it of doors and this created Kensington Gardens, there today. David Wynne, 1961 the problem that the folds London in the drapery could collect Made of seven massive pieces of Crystal Palace Park, London dirt and leaves and pockets Italian marble, The Arch weighs In 1959, the LCC commissioned David of water.” about 37 tonnes! In 1996, after Wynne to create a large animal being outside for 16 years, the sculpture. He spent many weeks It didn’t defeat him. sculpture was dismantled for at London Zoo, before deciding to “I solved it by making a restoration. Six years later, it depict its famous gorilla, Guy, in drainage tunnel through was reassembled and put back for the public black marble. He said he had tried the drapery folds between to enjoy. to express his feelings of “awe the legs.” This ensured any and terror and love for this mighty beast.” Henry Moore, at his home in Perry Green, adjusting the sculpture’s pedestal rain which did fall on the sculpture just flowed away. 6 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 7 Old Flo Going up settles in

In post-war Britain, tower Draped Seated Woman blocks were on the rise sat at the heart of the After World War Two, London Stifford Estate faced a severe housing Although Henry Moore and the problem. Many homes had LCC reached agreement about been destroyed in bombing the sale in early 1962, it wasn’t raids during the conflict. until 8 June of that year that Plus, poorly built Victorian Draped Seated Woman was houses with little real sanitation placed in her east London home were a health hazard. For on the Stifford Estate. example, many houses lacked The official unveiling was on a bathroom and only had an 25 June – but not everyone outside toilet. was impressed… Planners believed tower “Is this monstrosity blocks were the answer supposed to represent The Stifford Estate offered locals a new way of living that was a welcome change Womanhood?” As the tower blocks were so tall, they could house many Those were the words of one people, while using only a small the Stifford Estate, near 1961. The three towers were outraged Stepney resident, area of land. This left room at Road. The LCC started each 17 floors high and held writing to a local newspaper. ground level for the creation of construction in 1959 and 97 flats. They overlooked a However, before long, Draped new public spaces and parks. progressed quickly. They had new, open green space, which Seated Woman was just part One such development was finished three tower blocks by was named Stepney Green. of everyday Stifford Estate life. Children played around her, and whole families posed for photos in front of her. On show The sculpture’s official title sculpture Draped Seated Woman was still a bit of a mouthful – really was: strong, dependable, The LCC believed that and she was soon known by and ever-present Old Flo. these new homes should other names, such as Gladys Henry Moore avoided being and Big Bertha. drawn into any debate about his feature lots of new art sculpture. Instead, he preferred There was one to work at his studio in Perry The LCC commissioned murals, nickname that really Green. Over the next decade or mosiacs and other artworks. stuck, though – Old Flo so, Moore’s reputation continued The idea was that they would to grow, with his distinctive art improve and inspire the lives of To everyone who lived on the being shown all over the world. those who lived there. Artist Tony Hollaway works Stifford Estate, that’s who the Including, of course, in Stepney. As residents entered the towers, on the design for a mural they were greeted by murals created by Tony Hollaway. He also made mosiacs displayed inside the buildings. No sir! Moore’s Draped In 1951, Moore turned down a chance to be honoured by the Seated Woman was Queen, refusing a knighthood. He was worried that being to be placed on a “Sir Henry Moore” might affect his work and relationships raised grass mound with other artists. He explained in a letter, “Such a title might tend to cut me off from fellow artists whose work has aims This mound was just outside the similar to mine.” tower block known as Wickham Eleven years later, in July 1962, it was Old Flo who was House. This was to be the “public honoured by the Queen instead – when Elizabeth II came to gallery” where all could enjoy the work The finished mural in place at Stepney and officially opened the Stifford Estate. Wickham House, Stifford Estate of one of Britain’s greatest artists. 8 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 9 She was opposite my I walked past Old Flo every nan’s house, so I grew up Saturday as a child on the way Memories playing around her to shopping at Watney Market. Michelle Hallett I know every wrinkle of Old Flo of her dress. It was such a privilege to have got to Draped Seated Woman was more than know a sculpture so well just a sculpture, she was part of people’s Andrea Cunningham lives – as these Stepney residents recall

When we were very young, we affectionately called her Mummy. We would sit beside Old Flo – carefree, chatting and laughing She was such a big part Ninette Sacco of my childhood. Every time I looked out of my bedroom window, there she was: ugly, beautiful, enchanting and terrifying

Diane Hassall-Mead

If we were Here’s my ordering a cab, we cousin Terry and would say, ‘Pick us me, sitting on Old up by Old Flo’. Flo in the 60s. It brings That was like the pickup back many happy I remember point! She was a memories playing on good old girl Old Flo when I Laurence Lewis Louisa Sullivan A piece of was a boy in the late In my Stepney my childhood 60s. Happy youth, we called her times! I will never The Fat Lady! forget Terry Davidson Joan Keating Elizabeth Moss 10 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 11 Coming Travelling down north After the demolition of the Stifford Estate, Old Flo was moved to for safekeeping – some 200 miles away “Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, In fact, it was not the first time Old sunlight is necessary for Flo had visited this award-winning it. And for me, its best open-air gallery, set in rolling hills in the north of . For a short setting... is nature” time in 1987, she had been on display as part of a Henry Moore exhibition Henry Moore, 1951 – not that the Stifford Estate residents were happy about it. One local complained: “We got a letter from the council on Monday But in 1997, as the Stifford instead became one of the most evening and then at 6.30 the next Estate’s tower blocks came down, popular sculptures in the park. morning they took her away like Old Flo once more headed north By 2012, half a million people thieves in the night.” However, the to Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This came to admire her every year. concern was misplaced. Once the time, with no set date for return. Many of those visitors never four-month exhibition was over, Old While there, she faded from realised Draped Seated Woman Flo returned to her usual position. east Londoners’ memories and was originally an East End girl.

Over time, the Stifford vandalised. Many people Estate began to feel less realised they no longer enjoyed Another group organised a modern and new. And living there. Not for sale! legal challenge, asking: So, in 1997, less than 40 years living high up could have after the towers were built, all After 15 years of a quiet, “Who owned the its problems residents – including Old Flo – country life, in 2012 Old sculpture – was it were moved out. It was time for Tower Hamlets or One ex-resident said that, as a a new beginning for the area. Flo suddenly found girl, if she was playing outside The towers were demolished, herself back in the news someone else?” and an ice cream van pulled up, low-level housing was built After all, if Tower Hamlets she would run to her flat to ask instead and some of the That year, the then mayor of didn’t own Draped Seated her parents if she could have neighbourhood was landscaped Tower Hamlets proposed to sell Woman, how could they sell it? money for an ice cream. The to create Stepney Green Park. the sculpture to raise money Three years later, a court trouble was, she lived on the Tower Hamlets’ Stifford for local community needs. decided Old Flo did, in fact, 16th floor: “By the time we came Estate was no more. At the time, it was estimated belong to Tower Hamlets down again, the to be worth £18-22 million. Council. So, if the council van would have Even Old The mayor’s decision created wanted, they could sell it. pulled away. We Flo huge debate. Some people However, at about the same would be very thought it was right to sell art time in 2015, Tower Hamlets disappointed.” suffered to pay for services for local elected a new mayor, John Sometimes people. Many others strongly Biggs. He declared he would the lifts in the and had disagreed. Questions about not let the sculpture be sold. It towers were Old Flo were even asked in the was just too important. broken, parts graffiti Houses of Parliament. What’s more, he promised to of the area scrawled Local artists staged protests, bring Draped Seated Woman became run some of them dressing up as back to the borough. down and on her Old Flo and posing outside the After 18 years, it seemed Old buildings were council offices (see right). Flo was finally coming home. 12 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 13 Back in town!

After 20 years away, with good 24-hour security. At the time, Tower Hamlets Old Flo returned to Council had no location of its east London own that was suitable, so the , John East Londoners were delighted Biggs, offered local businesses by the decision in 2015 to bring and museums and others the Draped Seated Woman back chance to look after her. “Her to Tower Hamlets. But where considerable value means would she go? During the we have to find her a secure two decades that home for the next five Old Flo was in years,” he explained. Yorkshire, her old “I am Several organisations neighbourhood delighted to have submitted proposals had changed. her back in the to look after Old Flo. Her previous After much thought, home of the East End where Canary Wharf Group Stifford Estate she belongs” was selected. no longer existed, so , Mayor of “It is very well the sculpture Tower Hamlets located,” said couldn’t Mayor John Biggs. return there. Also, Old Flo was “This is a public place now valued at over £18 million. and anyone can come here In the recent past, other 24 hours a day.” works of art in public places, including bronze sculptures So, until 2022, this loved, by Henry Moore, had been well-travelled East End woman, stolen. So, it was clear she who has seen so much, will call needed to be somewhere Canary Wharf her home.

“We are honoured to have been asked to look after this well-loved artwork on behalf of the people of the borough” Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman and CEO, Canary Wharf Group

Old Flo appeared serene In September 2017, Old Flo was The sculpture was given a The first date to place her in Her return was welcomed by and calm in the Yorkshire carefully lifted onto a lorry, and thorough clean by a specialist Canary Wharf was abandoned John Biggs, Mayor of Tower countryside. But a move back wrapped in protective material. restorer before beginning her due to gale-force winds. Days Hamlets. “It’s reconnecting the to London was on the cards Her return home had started 200-mile trip to Canary Wharf later, conditions were just right old and the new,” he said

14 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 15 Most of Henry Moore’s sculptures of people were of women – the female form Old Flo’s fascinated him Art for all

six sisters There’s public art everywhere you look at Canary Wharf

One of the advantages of casting a sculpture Henry Moore’s Draped Seated Woman is (see pages 4-5) is that you can create a number probably the most famous work of art on display on the Canary Wharf estate. of versions of the same work of art But it’s not the only one. In fact, there are more than 70 other pieces Seven casts were made of Draped same at a distance, they are all of great art that anyone who works in, lives in Seated Woman – Old Flo is Cast slightly different. or visits Canary Wharf can admire for free. Two. Cast Zero is on display just a The surface finish, or patina, Canary Wharf Group displays public art Couple on Seat (1984) By few miles upriver, in London’s of the bronze will vary according because the company believe art creates Chadwick began his career drawing building plans for Britain gallery. The other versions to where the sculpture is kept, if a better environment for everyone. architects but took up sculpture in his 30s. He was can be found all round the world. it’s indoors or outdoors, and the influenced by Henry Moore and produced many pieces Although each cast of Draped climate. Also, they are all displayed of human figures in different positions. Seated Woman might look the on different sorts of pedestals.

Maps with the locations of the works of art Cast Zero Cast One Cast Three can be found in Canary Wharf and on the , London Kunst- und Museumsverein The Royal Museums of Canary Wharf Group website. There is one Wuppertal, Germany Fine Arts of Belgium version for adults and another for children. Winter Lights This is the artist’s edition which Henry Moore kept for himself. It The locals didn’t really like her This group of museums is located canarywharf.com/arts-events/ Every year in early January, Canary Wharf hosts weighs 1.6 tonnes – that’s about when she was first displayed. In in the country’s capital city, art-on-the-estate/ an incredible public festival that celebrates the the same weight as a family car! fact, someone poured tar over Brussels. This cast of Draped best of light technology and art. Some of the In 1978, Henry Moore gave 36 her and stuck feathers on! Times Seated Woman is one of four work in previous years was so popular, it is now other sculptures to the Tate, as have changed and she is now a works by Henry Moore that the permanently located in Canary Wharf. well as maquettes and drawings. much-loved resident of Wuppertal. museums hold.

Cast Four Cast Five Cast Six Yale University Art Gallery, USA of Victoria, The Hebrew University of Australia Jerusalem, Israel This cast holds a special memory for Bill Clinton, ex-President of When this edition arrived Cast Six is one of the first sights Fortuna (2016) Something new! the USA, and his wife Hillary. in Melbourne in 1960, it was visitors see on arriving at the By Every few weeks, there’s a new exhibition of art in On their first date at university, announced as “an historic event university. In this picture (above), Canary Wharf Group asked the artist to create a the lobby of the office building One Canada Square Hillary sat in the cast’s lap as she of great importance” for Australia. Henry Moore can be seen taking sculpture especially for the estate. She named it after (home to Canary Wharf Group). There have been and Bill talked. She stayed there The gallery called it “the finest a photo of the cast, just after she the Roman goddess of luck and hopes it will “inspire displays of fantastic glassware, thought-provoking the whole evening, just chatting! piece of sculpture in this country.” was unveiled for the first time. all those living or working here, or just passing by”. , iconic photographs and more. 16 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 17 Found objects When you Has Draped Seated Woman inspired you? have finished your Henry Moore took inspiration work of art, take Your space! Why not try some of the methods its creator, from the world around him. a picture of it and Henry Moore, used to produce his work? When he was out walking in the stick a copy in countryside or at a beach, he here. would collect natural objects, Drawing based on a sketch such as pebbles, bark and animal bones, and take them Henry Moore always carried a home with him. These are sketchbook wherever he went. He known as “found objects”. would make rough sketches, as well as Moore would study found add notes, so that he could remember objects to help him come up exactly what he saw. Later on, he with ideas for sculptures. would create a finished drawing, using the sketches and notes as a guide.

Sketches Henry Moore made of Londoners using tube stations to shelter from : Underground Sheltering 1940-41

It’s easy to see how Moore’s sculpture, called Animal Head 1951, could have been inspired by both a pebble and an animal’s skull

Why not do Have a look in your school bag some quick sketches and take out some of your things of something that – such as a rubber, key ring or inspires you? Later just scrunched-up scrap paper. The finished on, you can use the Look at your “found objects”. drawing: sketches to create Do their shapes make you think Tube Shelter a finished drawing of something else? That could be Perspective 1941 here! the start of a great art project!

Photos: All photographs of Henry Moore works reproduced by Photographing a model permission of The . Cover Philip Vile; West Wind: Henry Moore Archive; ©Imperial War Museum against a skyline (HU 44272); Henry Moore Archive; 69 drops – Nunzio Prenna; Peter Matthews. P2 Lesley Johnson; David Hares; Philip Vile. P3 West Wind: Henry Moore Archive; Getty Images/Popperfoto; Henry Moore in studio: Errol Jackson; Henry Moore liked to take photos of his work to Reclining Figure: Jonty Wilde. P4 ©Imperial War Museum (HU 44272); Shelter record its progress. But he also used photography Scene: Henry Moore Archive. P5 Canary Wharf Group Plc; Sketches: Henry to help him visualise how a full-sized sculpture Moore Archive; Maquette: Lidbrooke; Henry Moore with working model: Felix H Man; Full size: Henry Moore Archive; Henry Moore in foundry: Fritz Eschen. P6 would look. To do this he would photograph a Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo; Henry Moore Archive. P7 model or maquette from below, with trees or a Lucy Young; Woman and Fish: Images George Rex; Large Spindle Piece: Lesley field behind it to give an illusion of greater size. Why not use Wake; Large Standing Figure – Knife Edge: Sarah Mercer; The Bull: Edwardx/ you phone to take Edward Hands; The Arch: Henry Moore Archive; Guy the Gorilla: Adrian Chinery/ Alamy Stock Photo. P8 London Metropolitan Archives, City of London, ref a picture of a small 272114; London Metropolitan Archives, City of London, ref 272170; London object against Metropolitan Archives, City of London, ref 272082. P9 London Metropolitan the Canary Wharf Archives, City of London, ref 272012; Henry Moore in studio: John Hedgecoe; Henry Moore Archive. P10-11 Main image: Henry Moore Archive; Laurence skyline? You can Lewis. P12 Geoffrey Taunton/Alamy Stock Photo; © David Hoffman. P13 Tim print it out and You could use Green; Isabel Infantes. P14-15 Philip Vile; Tim Green; Charlotte Graham/CAG stick it in here Photography; Jonty Wilde; Lucy Young; Lucy Young; Neil Turner. 16 Philip Vile; your phone to take Cast Zero: Henry Moore Archive; Cast One: James Copper; Cast Three: a picture of a small Bo Boustedt; Cast Four: Henry Moore Archive; Cast Five: Anna Bullions; Cast object against Six: David Harris. P17 69 drops – Nunzio Prenna; Solent; Peter Matthews; Heini Schneebeli. P18-19 Tube sketches: Henry Moore Archive; Tube Shelter the Canary Wharf Perspective: Michel Muller; Reclining Figure: Henry Moore Archive; Animal Head: This lead maquette for Reclining Figure 1938 is actually only 33cm long skyline. Print it out Henry Moore Archive. P20 Philip Vile; Henry Moore in studio: John Hedgecoe; and stick it London Metropolitan Archives, City of London, ref 272012; Lesley Johnson. in here! 18 Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf Henry Moore’s Old Flo and Canary Wharf 19 Henry Moore is one of Britain’s most famous artists. This book tells the story of one of his sculptures, Draped Seated Woman

A firm friend for the people of Stepney

Henry Moore – the sculptor and his work

A new beginning in Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets

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