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September 2002

Henry Moore: The Graphics Portfolios
Original lithoghraphs and etchings by a giant of 20th-century modernism, Henry Moore [1898-1986]. Moore's forms are among the iconic images of the XXth century. This exhibition explores the artist's translations of his vision into two dimensions and features some of his most important graphic work.

The youngest disciple of the poet-artist William Blake, George Richmond was a draughtsman of precocious brilliance, breadth, and insight and one of the finest portraitists of the Victorian Age. The Son of a painter of portrait miniatures, Richmond achieved extraordinary success in the art world, becoming a friend of many of the great artistic, religious, and political figures of the day. Richmond remained endearingly modest, despite the trappings of worldly success, which included election to the Royal Academy and honorary doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge.

While Richmond's work is represented in many great museum collections, much of it still remains in the possession of the artist's descendants. This important group of drawings from the Richmond family spans much of his career-from the small drawing of a nude figure and a hovering bird of circa 1827, when the eighteen-year-old prodigy was still fully under the sway of William Blake; to the studies after antiquity and old masters made in Italy in the 1830s and 40s; to the extraordinary life studies of his later years. The drawings demonstrate Richmond's remarkable powers of delineation and reveal his wide-ranging interests.