Accession Number
2011/1.124

Title
Forest

Artist(s)
Henry Moore

Artist Nationality
British (modern)

Object Creation Date
1973

Medium & Support
lithograph on Hodgkinson paper

Dimensions
16 in x 13 1/4 in (40.64 cm x 33.66 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Corrine Lemberg

Subject matter
One of four loose leaf lithographs included alongside a book of assorted poems by the Pulitzer Prize winning British-American poet W. H. Auden that has an accompany of lithographs designed especially for the project by British sculptor Henry Moore. Henry Moore drew the accompanying images in response to the choosen poems between February and December of 1973. The lihtographs are included in a slipcase in a box that also includes the book (Edition B, 2011/1.125). The three other accompanying works are "Multitude II" (2011/1.121), "Fjord" (2011/1.122), and "Thin-lipped Armourer II" (2011/1.123). For the aesthetics of this print, Moore was inspired by the turn-of-the-century French Pointalist artist Georges Seurat. Instead of focusing on outlines, this landscape fuses light, depth, volume in order to create a more mystical vision of a tree.

Physical Description
At the center of the lithograph, a tree's black trunk stretches from the bottom to the top of the print. The tree's abstract leaves and branches spread across the top of the print and there is ground cover across the bottom in exagerated texture. Signed (l.r.) "Moore" and numbered (l.l.) "53/150" in pencil.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Additional Object Classification(s)
Unbound Work

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
branches (plant components)
forests (cultural landscapes)
lithographs
poetry
trees