Book Jacket
1950
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on vélin du Marais wove paper
Dimensions
image: 39.05 × 28.89 cm (15 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.1284
Art Historical Context
Henry Moore's *Book Jacket* (195) is a vibrant color lithograph created as a cover design, showcasing the British sculptor's foray into printmaking during the post-World War II era. Moore, renowned for his monumental semi-abstract bronze sculptures of reclining figures and sheltering mothers, adapted his organic, biomorphic forms to flat, graphic medium of lithography. This piece exemplifies his ability to translate three-dimensional ideas into two-dimensional dynamism, likely evoking themes of human resilience and nature's curves that defined his modernist style. Printed on luxurious vélin d...
About the Artist
Henry Moore
Henry Moore (1898–1986) was one of the most celebrated and influential sculptors of the twentieth century, whose monumental abstract forms — reclining figures, mother and child groupings, and dramatic void-pierced masses — reshaped the landscape of modern sculpture and brought his work to audiences across the globe. Born in Castleford, Yorkshire, the son of a coal miner, Moore won a scholarship to...