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Article: A sculptor in focus: Simon Poe applauds the Henry Moore Institute for a small exhibition that explores the way the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner used photography.
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In a small room at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds is a little exhibition entitled 'Thomas Woolner: Seeing Sculpture through Photography'. It comprises just a marble bust of Tennyson; a plaster statuette, Love, a modest number of photographs; a chromolithograph; and a couple of volumes of Victorian periodicals. It is a quiet show, too, unassuming, monochrome and austere, but the more I see of bloated, sprawling 'blockbusters', the more I enjoy exhibitions like this one.
Thomas Woolner's ability was recognised early and he was sent, aged only thirteen, to study with the painter Charles Behnes. When Charles died he transferred into the studio of his brother ...
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