Ideas for Sculptures
1975
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on T. H. Saunders wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 25.72 × 34.93 cm (10 1/8 × 13 3/4 in.) sheet: 51.75 × 66.68 cm (20 3/8 × 26 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Accession Number
2015.19.3394
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...