DOI issue:
No. 62 (May, 1898)
DOI article:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Henry Moore's animal studies
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0254
Henry Moore's Animal Studies
permitted t<> COVer all the ground he can, and the work ; he had made a hit with it, and every collec-
public should accept his work, whatever may he tor frit it his duty to have among his pictures a
its form, in a spirit of sincere appreciation. True sea-piece by Henry Moore. So from the popular
versatility is an artistic quality of rare growth, and standpoint the artist's success was beyond question,
it claims every fostering care. Its luxuriance should He had wide popularity, honours of all kinds were
be encouraged, and no injudicious pruning of its bestowed upon him, his work was in general
sturdiest branches should be applied to arrest its demand, and its amazing power was ungrudgingly
development and to prevent it from reaching the admitted on all sides. He was accorded, and
fullest maturity. deserved, recognition as one of the greatest painters
Beyond doubt a great deal of the finest type of of the sea that the British school has ever known,
art work has been lost to the world by the popular What more would it be possible to claim for him ?
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FROM A STUDY BY HENRY MOORK, R.A
habit of imposing restrictions upon the men who
are capable of the highest achievements in the
practice of painting. In the case of such a man
as Henry Moore this loss has been truly lament-
able. It would be interesting to know how many
of the people who have given no special study to
the history of his artistic methods understand at
all what were- the possibilities of his career. To
the vast majority of art lovers, and even to many
experts and writers on art, he was a man of one
subject. His particular capacity was long held to
be the representation of the sea, and the rendering
ol wave movement under certain conditions of
wind and weather. For the later years of his lite
lit- was almost entirely confined to this branch of
230
Yet in spite of all this it is not unreasonable to
regard Henry Moore as a victim of compulsory
specialism. A great sea-painter he was beyond all
question, and the utmost credit is due to him for
the way in which he avoided the temptation to
become mannered and conventional in work which
might easily have been done by rule. But he was
equally great in other forms of nature painting.
His landscape, as might have been expected from
so fine a colourist and such a close student of
effects of atmosphere and light, was admirable :
and his treatment of pastoral subjects was full ot
distinction and sound judgment. He might, had
he not been urged, really against his inclination,
into the particular direction that he followed
permitted t<> COVer all the ground he can, and the work ; he had made a hit with it, and every collec-
public should accept his work, whatever may he tor frit it his duty to have among his pictures a
its form, in a spirit of sincere appreciation. True sea-piece by Henry Moore. So from the popular
versatility is an artistic quality of rare growth, and standpoint the artist's success was beyond question,
it claims every fostering care. Its luxuriance should He had wide popularity, honours of all kinds were
be encouraged, and no injudicious pruning of its bestowed upon him, his work was in general
sturdiest branches should be applied to arrest its demand, and its amazing power was ungrudgingly
development and to prevent it from reaching the admitted on all sides. He was accorded, and
fullest maturity. deserved, recognition as one of the greatest painters
Beyond doubt a great deal of the finest type of of the sea that the British school has ever known,
art work has been lost to the world by the popular What more would it be possible to claim for him ?
(
t .-Aim
„ >V -2,, "V*
FROM A STUDY BY HENRY MOORK, R.A
habit of imposing restrictions upon the men who
are capable of the highest achievements in the
practice of painting. In the case of such a man
as Henry Moore this loss has been truly lament-
able. It would be interesting to know how many
of the people who have given no special study to
the history of his artistic methods understand at
all what were- the possibilities of his career. To
the vast majority of art lovers, and even to many
experts and writers on art, he was a man of one
subject. His particular capacity was long held to
be the representation of the sea, and the rendering
ol wave movement under certain conditions of
wind and weather. For the later years of his lite
lit- was almost entirely confined to this branch of
230
Yet in spite of all this it is not unreasonable to
regard Henry Moore as a victim of compulsory
specialism. A great sea-painter he was beyond all
question, and the utmost credit is due to him for
the way in which he avoided the temptation to
become mannered and conventional in work which
might easily have been done by rule. But he was
equally great in other forms of nature painting.
His landscape, as might have been expected from
so fine a colourist and such a close student of
effects of atmosphere and light, was admirable :
and his treatment of pastoral subjects was full ot
distinction and sound judgment. He might, had
he not been urged, really against his inclination,
into the particular direction that he followed