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Subject: A biography of Henry Moore provided by the Pace Gallery, Los Angeles and New York, USA.

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Biography

1898 Born July 30 in Castleford, Yorkshire.

1919-21 Studies at the Leeds School of Art.

1921-25 Studies at the Royal College of Art, London.

1925-32 Teaches at the Royal College of Art, London.

1928 First solo exhibition at the Warren Gallery, London.

1932-39 Teaches at the Chelsea School of Art.

1943 First solo exhibition in New York at the Buchholz Gallery.

1946 Retrospective exhibition presented by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1948 Awarded the International Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale.

1951 Retrospective exhibition presented by the Tate Gallery, London.

1961 Elected member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York.

1968 Exhibition in honor of the artist's 70th birthday at the Tate Gallery, London.

1972 Retrospective exhibition at Forte di Belvedere, Florence.

1977 Establishes The Henry Moore Foundation in Much Hadam, Hertfordshire.

1978 Exhibitions in honor of the artist's 80th birthday at the Serpentine Gallery, London and City Art Gallery, Bradford.

1983 Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

1986 Dies August 31 in Hertfordshire.

Selected Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Great Britain

Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

City Art Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain

Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution,

Washington, D.C.

Israel Museum, Billy Rose Art Garden, Jerusalem, Israel

Kunsthalle der Stadt Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Kunsthaus ZŸrich, ZŸrich, Switzerland

Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, Great Britain

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof’a, Madrid, Spain

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri

Norton Simon Museum, Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena, California

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rijksmuseum Kršller-MŸller, Otterlo, Netherlands

The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain

Wakefield Art Gallery and Wakefield Museum, Wakefield, Great Britain

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