Henry Moore Works in Public
This is a guide to Moore's sculptures on public display throughout the world. We strive to ensure that all information is accurate, however we recommend that you contact each venue before making a visit. Please also contact us if you spot any mistakes. In some instances it has not been possible to source an image of the actual sculpture in-situ, and on such occasions an alternative image has been used.
Montreal
Dorchester Square
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Family Group 1944 (LH 233)
- Family Group 1945 (LH 235)
- Reclining Figure 1945 (LH 252)
- Working Model for Reclining Figure: Internal External Form (LH 298)
- Study for Head of Queen 1952 (LH 349a)
- Study for Head of Warrior 1953 (LH 358a)
- Draped Reclining Figure 1956 (LH 411)
- Woman 1957-58 (LH 439)
- Maquette for Seated Figure. Arms Outstretched 1960 (LH 463)
- Draped Seated Figure: Headless 1961 (LH 485)
- Mother and Child: Wheels 1962 (LH 510)
- Large Totem Head 1968 (LH 577)
bronze
height 152.5cm
Right from the beginning I have been more interested in the female form than in the male. Nearly all my drawings and virtually all my sculptures are based on the female form. Woman has that startling fullness of the stomach and the breasts. The smallness of the head is necessary to emphasise the massiveness of the body. If the head had been any larger it would have ruined the whole idea of the sculpture. Instead the face and particularly the neck are more like a hard column than a soft goitred female neck. Woman emphasises fertility like the Palaeolithic Venuses in which the roundness and fullness of form is exaggerated.
Henry Moore quoted in Henry Spencer Moore, photographed and edited by John Hedgecoe, words by Henry Moore, Nelson, London; Simon and Schuster, New York 1968, p.326