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. It is clear to see organisation well for many years ahead. that the model that Henry Moore and his A commitment to closer working between family used to devise his Foundation has the Foundation’s two sites, in Yorkshire become increasingly influential in a time and Hertfordshire, was underpinned by where the number and importance of artists’ the delivery of a new website and the foundations are in the ascendancy. It is implementation of a full rebrand. We also incredible to look back over the years where commissioned our first ever significant the Henry Moore Foundation has given piece of research into our audiences to around £33 million to support a diverse range ensure the continued relevance of our work. of exhibitions, acquisitions, conservation, research and most significantly, artists, some As the arts operated in an increasingly of whom are now contemplating the idea challenging environment, the Foundation’s of establishing their own foundations - an response was to be more active in its outcome that I feel sure would have pleased partnership working. We found particularly Henry Moore greatly. willing partners in the higher education sector; fellow arts charities, including the All that has been achieved in the two-year Paul Mellon Centre and the Contemporary Art period considered here has only been Society; and we increased our dialogue with possible because of the enormous effort of other artists’ foundations to share knowledge a great number of people. The staff team, our and drive improvement. The ambitions for remarkable volunteers, guides and gardeners, our partnership in Yorkshire, with Leeds Art my fellow Trustees and those who simply Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The support us in ways that are too numerous Hepworth Wakefield, grew exponentially and to mention, but make a great difference. is now cited as a model of good practice. Some of those contributors have since moved on but their work is much valued and will Perhaps the most important partnership the be built upon. Foundation has is with the artist’s family. Mary Moore, who established the Foundation Nigel Carrington with her parents in the 1970s, continued to Chairman be an enormous source of encouragement and advice. Mary and her family’s support and involvement continues to help to inform our developments. Henry Moore Mother and Child: Block Seat 1983–84 bronze (LH 838) 3 Photo: Hufton + Crow Director’s Introduction Regular visitors to Perry Green will have sale to the Foundation by a private American noted that the two-year period covered by this collector. The drawing was of particular Review has witnessed significant change at interest because its first owner had been Sir the recently renamed Henry Moore Studios Michael Sadler, the former Vice-Chancellor of & Gardens. Architect Hugh Broughton and his Leeds University, who had greatly inspired the team have skilfully completed buildings, which young Henry Moore during his student days met a challenging and at times contradictory at Leeds College of Art. The acquisition was brief of moving the facilities for visitors and secured as the result of a generous donation staff into the twenty-first century, whilst by the luxury pen manufacturer Montblanc. respecting the unique character of Henry Moore’s home and place of work. Alongside The Foundation has continued to be very this, a triumphant and at the same time active in its work at the Henry Moore Institute restrained new archives store has been in Leeds, where a programme of exhibitions completed, which will provide ideal storage and research enhances a remarkable conditions for one of the world’s most library devoted to the subject of sculpture complete and substantial archives devoted and the Archive of Sculptors’ Papers to a single artist. managed in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries. The unique relationship with The reopening of the newly developed site Leeds Art Gallery continues to flourish, to was marked by the magnificent exhibition, the great advantage of its exceptional Becoming Henry Moore, which charted the collection of modern and contemporary remarkable journey Moore made from being sculpture, which looks especially well in a schoolboy in the small industrial town of the gallery’s recently refurbished spaces. Castleford in Yorkshire, to being a part of the European avant-garde. We were supported With Leeds Art Gallery, the Henry Moore by important loans of works which illustrated Institute partners with The Hepworth Moore’s indebtedness to the great sculptural Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and traditions found in Cycladic, Sumerian, African through 2015 and 2016, the four institutions and Aztec cultures, as well as the works which collaborated on the development of a new he encountered as he became engaged with initiative which will pilot an international the contemporary art of the early twentieth sculpture project that will unite the venues century, a period of art history that he was and introduce sculpture into the public soon helping to define. domain. The project won the support of an Arts Council England Ambition for Excellence Henry Moore’s current relevance was well award, which will come to fruition in 2019. illustrated by the Foundation’s wonderfully productive partnership with the fashion house Within the pages of this Review, some of Burberry; their Spring 2017 Collection was the key achievements of the Foundation entirely inspired by Moore’s work, as well as are set out and demonstrate clearly that his life and working environment. To mark my colleagues have invested much skill and the launch of the collection, an exhibition was energy in the pursuit of that which inspired staged at Makers House in London, which Henry Moore to make such a wonderful attracted over 30,000 visitors in just one week. gesture to sculpture and all those who create, study and promote its rich history A rather fortuitous opportunity presented and current practice. itself in 2016, when one of Henry Moore’s 1930s Transformation Drawings was offered for Godfrey Worsdale Director The new Henry Moore Archive 4 5 Photo: Sarah Mercer Henry Moore Large Reclining Figure 1984 bronze (LH 192b) Through the careful reworking of the existing site we were The Henry Moore Foundation able to increase the number of car parking spaces to Masterplan meet the needs of visitors and businesses arriving in vehicles. Landscaping for this project was completed by The Landscape Agency, who along with the architectural design by Hugh Broughton Architects were one of several partners who contributed to the realisation of the Photo: Hufton + Crow Masterplan: Harley Haddow provided mechanical and electrical design; RG Carter was the main contractor and CGC Projects Ltd the quantity surveyor for the project. Staff who had temporarily been working in the Aisled Barn moved into the new offices in May 2016. Meanwhile, work continued behind the scenes to deliver the range of required environmental conditions in each of the artwork and archive storage spaces in both buildings. Henry Moore’s maquettes and works on paper began their transition back to the art stores shortly after staff returned to Dane Tree House, a considerable task that was completed by March 2017. The contents of the Henry Moore Archive are due to start being returned from August 2017 and will be accessible to the public in time for the 2018 visitor season. The public areas of the new visitor centre were opened to resounding approval on 1 July 2016 in time for the The new Henry Moore Archive shortened visitor season, with a formal opening and Photo: Hufton + Crow media launch scheduled to tie in with the major The Perry Green Masterplan drew almost to completion exhibition Becoming Henry Moore in April 2017. in 2015–17, with our new visitor centre opening to visitors for the first time at the start of the 2016 season. Photo: Hufton + Crow These major architectural developments, undertaken by Hugh Broughton Architects, are the most significant and ambitious to date at Perry Green. Dane Tree House has been transformed into a spacious new visitor centre and admin hub to meet the evolving needs of our audiences.