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.
New York
Columbia University School of Law
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Two Forms 1934 (LH 146)
- Sculpture 1937 (LH 179)
- Family Group 1944 (LH 233)
- Maquette for Reclining Figure: Cloak 1966 (LH 564)
- Maquette for Spindle Piece 1968 (LH 591)
- Reclining Figure No.4 1954 (LH 332)
- Maquette for Square Form with Cut 1969 (LH 597)
- Reclining Figure: Holes 1976-78 (LH 657)
Museum of Modern Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
United Nations Headquarters
height 544cm
bronze
I have never seen a person or a piece of sculpture against architecture that I would say can be seen perfectly from every point of view. I just don’t know it. When dealing with an architectural situation, I attempt to consider certain things that can go wrong. There is a kind of right size for every such situation. I think that in the Lincoln Centre piece its size in relation to the four buildings all around it and to the plaza is just about right. This is the thing I tried to think about. I don’t work with architects except on these generalised problems like size. I don’t like doing commissions in the sense that I go and look at a site and then think of something. Once I have been asked to consider a certain place where one of my sculptures might possibly be places, I try to choose something suitable from what I’ve done or from what I’m about to do. But I don’t sit down and try to create something especially for it.
Moore quoted in Alan Wilkinson, Writings and Conversations, Lund Humphries 2002, page 243-244.