Artist field note

Henry Moore

The human figure becomes landscape.

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King and Queen

1952-53

Two seated figures are regal without traditional detail; authority is built from posture and distance.

The five in one idea

Moore made the body geological: hollowed, weathered and continuous with the landscape around it.