Figures on a Red Ground
Henry Moore
1955
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View on museum website →Medium
watercolor, crayon, marker, and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 23.5 × 20 cm (9 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lynn K. Altman Family Trust
Accession Number
2020.169.8
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...