Archive

Please note that the Archive will have limited opening times in July and August 2013.

The Henry Moore Institute houses and maintains the Leeds Museums & Galleries archive of sculptors' papers. Covering the eighteenth century to the present day it has a particular emphasis on the twentieth century and contains a diverse range of papers relating to British sculptural practice. There are particularly important collections of photographs and drawings.

The archive is closely related to the sculpture collection of Leeds Museums & Galleries and the Henry Moore Institute library. Together they provide an important research facility to enable a greater understanding of the history and practice of sculpture.

The online archive catalogue can be accessed by clicking the link on the right.

The following is a list of the collections in the archive:
Henry Hugh Armstead; Gilbert Bayes; Quentin Bell; Franta Belsky; Neville Boden; Laurence Bradshaw; Ian Breakwell; Albert Bruce-Joy; Reg Butler; Antonio Canova; Hermon Cawthra; Helen Chadwick; Geoffrey Clarke; Edward Bainbridge Copnall; Stephen Cox; Joseph Cribb; Hubert Dalwood; Grenville Davey; Cathy de Monchaux; Frank Dobson; Joanna Drew; Alfred Drury; the Elgin Marbles; Jacob Epstein; the Festival of Britain, 1951; Ian Hamilton Finlay; the Fisher family of York; Arthur Fleischmann; James Forsyth; George Frampton; George Fullard; John Galizia & Son Ltd; Henri Gaudier-Brzeska; Alfred Horace Gerrard; Alfred Gilbert; Eric Gill; Ernest and Mary Gillick; Count Gleichen; Andy Goldsworthy; Joseph Gott; the Great Exhibition, 1851; Rupert Gunnis; Siobhan Hapaska; Alfred Hardiman; William Granville Hastings and Donald Hastings; Heinz Henghes; Barbara Hepworth; Gertrude Hermes; Nathaniel Hitch; John Hoskin; 1862 International Exhibition, London; Errol Jackson; Emile Jacot; Charles Sargeant Jagger; Laurence Josephs; Eric Kennington; Michael Kidner; Peter King; A.J.T. Kloman; Ghisha Koenig; Bruce Lacey; Sydney Langford Jones; Langlands and Bell; Gilbert Ledward; Richard Cockle Lucas; Carlo Marochetti; William Calder Marshall; Bernard Meadows; Ivan Mestrovic; George Meyrick; Henry Moore; David Nash; Paul Neagu; Oscar Nemon; Peter (Laszlo) Peri; Eric Peskett; J.T. Poole; Edward Carter Preston; Francoise Quardon; Charles Quick; Betty Rea; Ivor Roberts-Jones; Ellen Mary Rope; Michael Rosenauer; Michael Sandle; Bernard Schottlander; Clare Sheridan; George Simonds; Willi Soukop; Thornycroft Family; Albert Toft; Leon Underwood; Josefina de Vasconcellos; Paule Vezelay; Auke de Vries; James Sherwood Westmacott; Richard Westmacott; Charles Wheeler; John Wilby & Son; Francis John Williamson; Henry Wood of Bristol; William Frederick Woodington; Bill Woodrow; Thomas Woolner; Austin Wright.

Donors

The archive welcomes gifts and bequests from sculptors and their families and institutions related to sculptural practice. Offers of material or information about potential archives should be directed to the Archivist.