Large Torso: Arch
Artist
Henry Spencer Moore
(English, 1898 - 1986)
Date1962-1963; cast 1963
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 78 1/2 × 60 × 42 1/8 inches (199.39 × 152.4 × 107.01 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object numberF99-33/18
Signedno visible signature
Edition/State/Proofed. of 7
On View
On viewGallery Location
- Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park
Collections
Gallery LabelHenry Moore said, "It is no longer necessary to close down and restrict sculpture to the single, static unit." In Large Torso: Arch, which frames a view of nature, it is space that opens and activates the form. The single arch is an unusual motif within Moore's oeuvre. It fuses organic, biomorphic form with one of the oldest architectural motifs, the arch.
George Ablah (1929-2014), Wichita, KS, by 1986 [1];
Purchased from Ablah by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 1986-1999 [2];
The Hall Family Foundation’s gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1999.
NOTES:
[1] George Ablah was a real estate developer, philanthropist and art collector.
[2] This object was on loan from the Hall Family Foundation to the Nelson-Atkins from 1986.
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