wife, Irina, and his daughter, Mary. The Henry Moore Foundation acquired the home from Mary in 2004, after which it underwent careful restoration. The house contains many artefacts, books and works of art that were part of Henry and Irina Moore’s personal collection which have been loaned to the Foundation by the Moore family. Multiple personalities visited the home, including not just art aficionados but celebrities and dignitaries.
The Sculpture Garden is set in the 70 acres of farmland that serves as home to the Henry Moore Foundation. Each year, around twenty of Moore’s sculptures are displayed in the gardens.
The Moore Studios comprise six different studios: Top Studio, a stable building Moore turned into a studio in 1940; the Etching Studio, a former village shop that Moore first adapted into a studio for making maquettes; the Summer House that Moore acquired in 1951 that he used for drawing; the Yellow Brick Studio created in 1958 to serve as a sculpture
store and primary carving studio; the Plastic Studio created in 1963 to work on large sculptures in natural light; and the Bourne Maquette Studio, named after a nearby stream, that holds hundreds of sculptural studies, bones, stones, shells, driftwood and other items and from which he observed and sketched his famous “Sheep Sketchbook” in 1972.
The Aisled Barn was purchased in 1980 and holds a number of tapestries developed by Moore from drawings and woven by West Design Studio. The Aisled Barn can be rented for private events and weddings.
The Henry Moore Archive contains over three-quarters of a million items collected throughout the artist’s life and up to the present day.
The grounds also hold a café and shop.
As mentioned, the sculpture park is closed for the winter. But it is certainly worth a visit when it reopens in April 2025.
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