Henry MooreEnglish, 1898–1986Family Group
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1946.1696
In the catalog
Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — © 2010 The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Meanwhile, in the life of Henry Moore
The whole life1940–1986
A bomb in Hampstead: the move to Hoglands
In September 1940 bomb shrapnel hit the Moores’ Hampstead home and they left London for Hoglands, a farmhouse in the hamlet of Perry Green near Much Hadham in Hertfordshire. It remained Moore’s home and workshop for the rest of his life; though he grew wealthy he never felt the need to move to larger premises.
1944
The death of Moore’s mother
Moore’s mother, Mary (née Baker), died in 1944; two years later his daughter was named after her.
March 1946
The birth of his daughter Mary
After several earlier miscarriages Irina gave birth to their only child, Mary, in March 1946, named after Moore’s mother. The loss of his mother and the arrival of the baby focused his mind on the family, which he expressed in many mother-and-child compositions.
1946–1947
A retrospective at MoMA and his first trip to America
In 1946 a retrospective of Moore’s work opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he made his first visit to America. The exhibition brought him fame as one of the finest masters of the twentieth century.
