Exhibitions

This exhibition in the Mezzanine Gallery looks at Henry Moore's associations with a younger generation of sculptors, including Anthony Caro, Isaac Witkin, Ralph Brown, Hubert Dalwood and Geoffrey Clarke, for whom Moore was, as the critic Herbert Read described, 'in some sense a parent'.

Many were taught by him, visited him, worked for him, used him as a referee for art school and teaching positions, exhibited alongside him, and initially defined their work in relation to his. Through correspondence, papers, drawings and sculptures, drawn from our own archive and other collections (as well as oral history accounts) the exhibition will explore these artists' various connections with Moore.  

Dear Henry Moore was programmed to run alongside our Main Galleries exhibition Henry Moore: Prints and Portfolios, a major exhibition of prints, etchings and drawings that explores the stories behind Moore's graphic work.