Figures in a Landscape
Henry MOORE
(British, 1898-1986)
Figures in a Landscape
Date1942
Mediumink, crayon, pencil, watercolor on paper
Dimensionsoverall: 14 3/4 x 21 1/8 in. (37.5 x 53.7 cm)
frame: 25 3/4 × 31 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (65.4 × 80.6 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationDRAWINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Wright S. Ludington
Object number1945.6.12
Subject(s)
- landscape
- animal
Collection
- 20th century European
- European
Sub-Collection(s)
- British
- English
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The sculptor, Henry Moore produced very little during the Second World War though he recorded ideas for future work in his drawings. These attenuated, pierced forms may look incongruous positioned in a field with grazing sheep. Moore collected bits of bone and stone to inspire the desiccated supine nudes that populate Surrealist landscapes like this one, in which the English countryside pulsates with the memory of a distant Celtic past.