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.
Los Angeles
County Museum of Art
- Reclining Figure: Circle 1983 (LH 903)
- Half Figure 1932 (LH 124)
- Three Piece Reclining Figure No.1 1961-62 (LH 500)
- Armless Seated Figure against Round Wall 1957 (LH 438)
- Maquette for Reclining Figure 1957 (LH 413a)
- Maquette for Reclining Figure 1955 (LH 401)
- Object: Bird Form 1955 (LH 394)
- Upright Motive: Maquette No.6 1955 (LH 384)
- Upright Motive: Maquette No.4 1955 (LH 381)
- Warrior's Head 1953 (LH 359)
- Standing Figure No.2 1952 (LH 318)
- Working Model for Reclining Figure: Festival 1950 (LH 292)
- Maquette for Standing Figure 1950 (LH 290a)
Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
J. Paul Getty Museum
bronze
length 47cm
This figure was perhaps my first conscious effort to make space and form absolutely inseparable. I became conscious of this aim halfway through the sculpture. In earlier works, particularly in my carvings, when I wanted to make space in stone sculpture it had been more difficult. Making a hole in stone is such a willed thing, such a conscious effort, and often the holes become things in themselves. But then the solid stone around them sometimes suffers in its shape because its main purpose is to enclose the hole. This isn't a really true three dimensional amalgamation between forms and space.
I think this is the first sculpture in which I succeeded in making form and space sculpturally inseparable.
Henry Moore quoted in Finn, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Environment, Thames and Hudson, London 1977