Moore's Sheep at Hertford Museum
Exhibition
27th February 2010 - 5th June 2010
Hertford Museum
Hertford
Animal Head 1951
LH 301
bronze edition of 8 + 1
cast: not recorded
length 30.5cm
unsigned, unnumbered
The Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
photo: Henry Moore Foundation archive
Sheep with Lamb I, 1972
photo: the Henry Moore Foundation
Head, 1974
photo: Michael Phipps
Working Model for Animal Form, 1971
LH 615
bronze edition of 9 + 1
cast: Fiorini, London 1971
length 66cm
signature: stamped Moore, 0/9
The Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1987
photo: Henry Moore Foundation archive
Goat’s Head 1952
LH 302
plaster
height 20.3cm
The Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
photo: Henry Moore Foundation archive
Ready for Shearing 1974
Ready for Shearing 1974 (CGM 230)
Head 1974
plate VII from the album Sheep
CGM 228
etching and drypoint in black
190 x 254mm
edition of 80 + 15 on Rives 305 x 387mm with a watermark designed by the artist
printer: Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris
publisher: Galerie Gérald Cramer, Geneva 1975
signature: pencil l.r. Moore; l.l. E/C
The Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
This Henry Moore Sheep exhibition, curated by the Foundation's Suzanne Eustace, closed on 5 June. It was the first exhibition at the newly-refurbished Hertford Museum.
The exhibition travels to the Gibberd Gallery at Harlow’s Civic Centre opening in July as part of their 2010 summer programme.
The Henry Moore Foundation will loan several works to this exhibition, including sixteen of Henry Moore’s much-loved sheep etchings together with a selection of related sculpture and found objects.
Henry Moore’s representations of sheep are among the most popular of his works, surprising and delighting those discovering them for the first time. He sketched the animals as they grazed in the fields surrounding his Hertfordshire studios, and they even inspired his monumental bronze sculpture Sheep Piece 1971-72 (LH 627), which can be seen by visiting The Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green. (Call 01279 843 333 to book your visit there).