Family Group (LH 269) is a sculpture by Henry Moore. It was his first large-scale bronze sculpture, and his first large bronze with multiple castings. Made for Barclay School in Stevenage, it evolved from drawings in the 1930s, through a series of models to bronze castings in 1950–51.

Family Group was Moore’s first larger scale bronze sculpture. Originally designed for a school in Stevenage, the piece has been seen as symbolising aspects of the values of the post-war era of austerity and reconstruction. Purchased from the artist through the Buchholz Gallery, New York (Grant-in-Aid) 1950.

Oct 30, 2018 · Immediately after the war, the architect Eugene Rosenberg commissioned Henry Moore to create a site-specific, large-scale sculpture for the Barclay School, in Stevenage, England. Rosenberg was a founding member of the architectural practice York, Rosenberg and Mardall and a visionary Modernist, architect of Gatwick Airport, the University of ...

Henry Moore was born in Yorkshire in 1898, the son of a coal miner. He studied at Leeds and at the Royal College of Art in London, where he taught sculpture from 1924 to 1931, moving on to Chelsea School of Art till 1939.

Henry Moore, standing next to his sculpture. This article lists a selection of notable works created by Henry Moore. The listing follows the list of works within the 1988 book Sculpture by Henry Moore [1] and links to images of the Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue. [2]

In 1950, he completed a multi-figured sculpture called Family Group, his first large-scale public bronze, commissioned by a secondary school in Stevenage. During the 1950s, Moore's public works were in steady demand.

Henry Moore’s postwar semi-abstract sculptures are informed by primitive art, Egyptian and Mexican sculpture, and the human figure. They often depict reclining figures or family groups with distinct, evocative hollow spaces.

His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or …

In 1944 Moore made a series of drawings and maquettes (small models) of family groups. These were preliminary ideas for a sculpture to be sited outside a school near Cambridge. In several of the studies two children are shown handling a book, a detail inspired by the scholastic nature of …

Family Group (LH 269) is a sculpture by Henry Moore. It was his first large-scale bronze sculpture, and his first large bronze with multiple castings. Made for Barclay School in Stevenage, it evolved from drawings in the 1930s, through a series of models to bronze castings in 1950–51.