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Article: Henry Moore left a legacy of reassuring monuments
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 3, 1986
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WASHINGTON It is no wonder that his countrymen found the art of
Henry Moore, who died Sunday at 88, immensely reassuring. He was the
most palatable of modernists. Plain-spoken and hard-working, he was
not a dandy but a yeoman. And he was all his life a patriot. Though
he lived through years of carnage - he was gassed in France in World
War I and lost his London studio in the German blitz - he never lost
his faith in the permanence of England. He distrusted revolution.
He championed old traditions. In one way he resembled those
19th-century poets who honored daffodils and mountains, and those
druids of the olden days who worshiped sacred springs and oaks. His
sculptures hymn the land.
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