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Article: The Minor Henry Moore
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 24, 1987
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He was a small and compact man, hard-muscled and plain-spoken.
His finest public sculptures are powerful, totemic, warmly
monumental. The artist Henry Moore-who died at 88 in 1986-eventually
became a sort of monument himself. He was cherished by his
countrymen. They approved his Yorkshire modesty (he would not accept
a knighthood-"I prefer plain Mr. Moore," he said). They loved his
love of England (Moore was gassed in the Great War and bombed out in
the Blitz). That this patriotic yeoman was regarded as a master
pleased them most of all.
Moore was once described by Kenneth Clark as "by common consent,
the outstanding creative force of the present day." Hilton Kramer
recently ranked Moore ...