  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Like many pioneers of twentieth-century art, Henry Moore drew greater inspiration from the primitive and archaic than from classical sources, lending his sculpture a timelessness that guaranteed its endurance in an age of changing fashions. The reclining female nude was Moore's favorite subject. Treating the female form like the earth from which, in myth, it had been molded, the sculptor transformed female curves and cavities into a metaphor for terrestrial hills and dales. Moore attracted the attention of the surrealists and of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung because of his use of biomorphic forms, archetypal imagery, and his awareness of the collective unconscious. Reclining Figure is one of the rare major sculptures by Moore carved in wood.
  
  
  Title
  Reclining Figure
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1939
  
  Artist
  Henry Moore
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1898-1986
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  English
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Elmwood
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 37 &Atilde;&#151; 79 &Atilde;&#151; 30 inches (94 &Atilde;&#151; 200.7 &Atilde;&#151; 76.2 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Modern Art to 1970
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Trustee Corporation
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
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  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  65.108
  
  
  Copyright
  Restricted
  
  
  
