Henry Moore's RECLINING FIGURE

Henry Moore's bronze sculpture, RECLINING FIGURE (1965), dominates the newly reconfigured reflecting pool basin at Lincoln Center. The massive artwork creates a welcome contrast to the geometric architecture of the Lincoln Center Theater in the background. Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are displayed as public art around the world. His forms typically depict mother-and-child or reclining figures, like the one pictured above. 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 contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters of his work compare the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape of his birthplace.

RECLINING MOTHER AND CHILD by HENRY MOORE

This is Henry Moore's "Reclining Mother and Child" at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Today is Mother's Day.

Moore in America: HENRY MOORE SCULPTURE at the NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

Reclining Mother and Child

Oval With Points

Hill Arches

Reclining Figure

Goslar Warrior

Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge

Earlier today, I visited the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx where the British sculptor HENRY MOORE's creations are on exhibit. Born in England, Moore (1898-1986) is known for his large-scale abstract sculptures set among natural landscapes. The exhibit is called MOORE IN AMERICA.

Randy Kennedy writes: The New York Botanical Garden’s “Moore in America” exhibition, with 18 of Henry Moore’s big, beloved bronzes is the largest outdoor collection of the sculptor’s work in a single venue ever presented in New York or anywhere else in the country. And it serves as the garden’s announcement of its intention to be seen as not simply as a nice, blossomy place but also as a museum in itself.

Moore, who died in 1986, most likely would have approved. “Sculpture is an art of the open air,” he once said. “And for me its best setting and complement is nature. I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.”