About the Artist
Henry Spencer Moore
1898–1986
Moore was one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century and arguably the most internationally celebrated sculptor of the period, renowned for his semi-abstract monumental bronzes which can be seen all over the world. He was born in Castleford, a small mining town in Yorkshire, in 1898 and studied at Leeds School of Art and then the Royal College of Art, London. By the 1950s Moore had begun to receive a number of international commissions and was the first British artist to become a global star in his own lifetime. His work came to symbolise post-war modernism and can be said to have caused a British sculptural renaissance. He continued working in sculpture, drawing, printmaking and textile design until his death in 1986.
Text courtesy of the Henry Moore Foundation
