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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Henry Moore
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(1898–1986) Sculptor with a major international reputation, whose most characteristic works – reclining semi-abstract figures, often made up of separate parts – evoke simultaneously the human body and eroded landscape forms. These compositions, often themselves large enough to assume a dominant position in a landscape, were the main theme of his later years. Much of his best-known work from the middle period of his life was more directly figurative, including the famous Madonna and Child (1943–4, commissioned for a church in *Northampton) and the King and Queen (1952–3) who sit facing out over the landscape near Dumfries in Scotland.
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Moore was also an excellent draughtsman; his crayon drawings of people sheltering in the London underground during World War II are among the most evocative images of that period. In the early 1990s there was litigation between his daughter, Mary Moore, and the Henry Moore Foundation over the foundation's plans to develop the sculptor's studio and garden at Perry Green in Hertfordshire as a study centre.
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