About the Artwork
Ideas for Sculpture
1940
Henry Moore
1898-1986
English
Unknown
Pen and black ink, graphite pencil, crayon, chalk, watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 16 7/8 inches (25.7 × 42.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.219
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Markings
In black pen and ink, lower right: Moore / 40
In pencil, upper right: (at least seven lines of undeciphered script); right center: (at least two lines of undeciphered script); in black ink, uppper left, verso (in Moore's hand): Henry Moore / Drawing 1940; in pencil: 35 (circled) / "Seated figures / drawing for sculpture; lower left corner, in pencil: 643; center right edge: 17 x 22
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of:Curt Valentin;
Buchholz Gallery, New York;
John S. Newberry
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DIA, City Art Museum, St. Louis, ORIGINS OF MODERN SCULPTURE, Jan 22-May 1, 1946, no 206.
Buchholz Gallery, New York, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOHN S. NEWBERRY, Sept 28-Oct 24, 1948, no 32.
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS XIX AND XX CENTURIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOHN S. NEWBERRY, Feb 12-March 31, 1948, p 23.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, NEWBERRY COLLECTION, 1948, no 745.
DIA, THE JOHN S. NEWBERRY COLLECTION, Oct 13-Nov 14, 1965, p 68, (ill).
DIA, MUSEUM DIRECTOR'S CHOICE, Project Outreach Travel Exhibition, 1970, pp 4-5, (ill).
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, COLLECTION OF JOHN S. NEWBERRY, 1947.
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, HENRY MOORE, Dec 1-Dec 26 1965.
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Henry Moore, Ideas for Sculpture, 1940, pen and black ink, graphite pencil, crayon, chalk, watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.219.
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