Fall into winter with Moore in Denver
Exhibition
1st March 2010 - 31st January 2011
Denver Botanic Gardens
1005 York Street
Denver, Colorado 80206
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
Oval with Points 1968-70
LH 596
bronze edition of 6 + 1
cast: Morris Singer, Basingstoke
height 332cm
signature: stamped Moore, 0/6
gift of the artist 1977
photo: David Mitchinson
Hill Arches 1973
LH 636
bronze edition of 3 + 1
cast: Hermann Noack, Berlin
length 550cm
signature: stamped Moore, 0/3
Gift of the artist 1977
photo: David Mitchinson
Reclining Figure: Angles 1979
LH 675
bronze edition of 9 + 1
cast: Hermann Noack, Berlin
length 218cm
signature: stamped Moore, 0/9
Acquired 1986
photo: David Mitchinson
Seated Woman 1958-59
LH 440
bronze edition of 6 + 1
cast: Hermann Noack, Berlin 1975
height 211cm
signature: stamped Moore, 0/6
Acquired 1987
photo: David Mitchinson
Locking Piece 1963-64
LH 515
bronze edition of 3 + 1
cast: Hermann Noack, Berlin
height 290cm
unsigned, [0/3]
Acquired 1987
photo: David Mitchinson
Mother and Child 1949
LH 269b
bronze edition of 1 + 1
cast: Fiorini, London 1958
height 81cm
unsigned, [0/1]
Gift of the artist 1977
photo: David Mitchinson
Anita Feldman, the Foundation's Head of Collections and Exhibitions, recently returned to Denver Botanic Gardens to give a talk entitled 'The Sublime Landscape' on Henry Moore. She reported that the gardens are spectacular with their autumn foliage.
This stunning exhibition 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. Our team worked in heavy snow and freezing temperatures to install this important exhibition and will shortly return to do the reverse, bringing the works home to Perry Green.