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Atlanta Botanical Garden hosts Moore in America in 2009, the largest outdoor special exhibition ever staged in a single location of the work of renowned twentieth century British artist and sculptor Henry Moore. The exhibition was organized by the Atlanta Botanical Garden in collaboration with The Henry Moore Foundation.

Garden Executive Director Mary Pat Matheson noted, "There is no other venue in Atlanta that can present an outdoor sculpture exhibition of this scale. Because Henry Moore was so very much attuned to nature, he envisioned his sculpture in the landscape, not indoors."

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Henry Moore, reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (July 3, 1898 - August 31, 1986), born in the coal-mining town of Castleford, Yorkshire, in England, is one of the world's most known and beloved 20th-century sculptors.

Moore began studying sculpture as an art student in 1919. His first solo show of sculpture was held in London in 1928. The following year Moore and his wife, Irina, moved to Hampstead, London, a center for artists and writers, where Moore made his living teaching sculpture and exhibiting his work. He would carve in the open air at his cottage in Kent.

In 1940 the couple moved to Perry Green in the Hertfordshire countryside. There, Moore would live and work for the remainder of his life, drawing inspiration from the surrounding landscape and collecting objects in nature that would provide ideas for his sculpture.

Moore's abstract works are displayed around the world. His subject matter is often a reclining woman, a mother and child, or a relationship in nature. His sculpture makes reference to the landscape and flowing hills of the countryside.

In 1977 he helped to establish The Henry Moore Foundation, donating his estate, lands and works to the Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts and an appreciation of Henry Moore's work.

This exhibition is organized by the Atlanta Botanical Garden in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation.

Henry Moore carving, 1964 reproduced by permission of
The Henry Moore Foundation