Exhibitions

Success for Moore in Denver


Exhibition
1st March 2010 - 31st January 2011
Denver Botanic Gardens
1005 York Street
Denver, Colorado 80206

Denver Botanic Gardens

Large Reclining Figure 1984

LH 192b
bronze edition of 1 + 1
cast: Morris Singer, Basingstoke
length 900cm approx
unsigned, [0,1]
Acquired 1986

photo: David Mitchinson

This stunning Denver Botanic Gardens exhibition has been very popular with Denver audiences since its opening at the beginning of March.

It features 20 large sculptures and the artist's tools, as well as several small scale models or maquettes of other sculptural pieces.  The works are loaned from The Henry Moore Foundation's collection. 

The sculptures are on display for several months, giving the gardens the chance to lend a changing seasonal beauty to the sculptures' environment. The works are on display at the botanic gardens' York Street and Chatfield locations.

Denver is the first major open-air show in the western United States for these twenty large bronzes.  Foundation Director Richard Calvocoressi, Head of Collections and Exhibitions David Mitchinson and Curator Anita Feldman, along with our Conservation team, attended the opening.

Our team worked in heavy snow and freezing temperatures to install this important exhibition.