Henry Moore Works in Public
This is a guide to Moore's sculptures on public display throughout the world. We strive to ensure that all information is accurate, however we recommend that you contact each venue before making a visit. Please also contact us if you spot any mistakes. In some instances it has not been possible to source an image of the actual sculpture in-situ, and on such occasions an alternative image has been used.
Manchester
Manchester City Art Gallery
Hornton stone
height 63.5cm
photo: Errol Jackson
I remember I started it before going of on the travelling scholarship when I’d been put on the staff of the Royal College of Art and I began it and left it unfinished and when I came back four months later I completed it. But this still has in it the four sided, pressed, compressed sense of a block, which although monumental in a sense, my criticism of this kind of work would be and was that the mother has no neck, that the child has no body because the head of the mother is taking the place of the body. That is at this stage I hadn’t got enough command of direct carving to give the forms a full three-dimensional existence.
Henry Moore quoted in Henry Moore Looking at his Work with Philip James, Visual Publications, London, New York, Toronto 1975: booklet, film strips and two audio cassettes
● In addition to Mother and Child other sculptures as well as drawings by Moore can be found in the Manchester City Art Gallery’s collection. Please contact the venue for details.