MOORE (Henry Spencer, 1898-1986, Sculptor)

Fine Typed Letter Signed to Paul HOGARTH (1917-1001, Artist and Illustrator) saying that he doesn’t “see any point in publishing my letter on the AIA’s statement on Czechoslovakia. If you will look at it, you will find that the main point to which I took exception was excluded from the version published in the Newsletter, so that my criticism of it is meaningless to anyone who has read only the published statement and not the one privately circulated. My assertion that there is a slight inconsistency between paragraphs 1 and 2 is still valid. But this is hardly worth publishing without the later part of my letter.... Since you said, in the last number, that I had written a comment to the Central Committee, you may now, if you wish, say that this comment referred to a provisional statement circulated to the Advisary Council and not to the statement which appeared in print...”, 1 side 8vo., Hoglands, Perry Green, Herts, 24th June

Moore is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other graphic works on paper. In 1948 he won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale. He turned down a knighthood in 1951 because he felt that the bestowal would lead to a perception of him as an establishment figure and that "such a title might tend to cut me off from fellow artists whose work has aims similar to mine".
After their Hampstead home was hit by bomb shrapnel in September 1940, Moore and Irina moved out of London to live in a farmhouse called Hoglands in the hamlet of Perry Green near Much Hadham, Hertfordshire. This was to become Moore's home and workshop for the rest of his life. Hogarth is best known for the cover drawings that he prepared in the 1980s for the Penguin edition of Graham Greene's books. He attended the Manchester School of Art from 1934 to 1936, where he became involved in the Artists' International Association and the Communist Party of Great Britain. After 1936 he attended Saint Martin's School of Art in London, and drove lorries in the Spanish Civil War for the International Brigade

Item Date:  1948

Stock No:  41783      £425

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