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Large Spindle Piece
Large Spindle Piece

Large Spindle Piece

Artist Henry Moore British, 1898–1986
Date1974, from the model of 1968–1969
MediumBronze
Dimensions128 x 127 in. (325.1 x 322.6 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object numberG.80.6.3
On View
On view
Label Text“Being a sculptor,” said Henry Moore, “means that you are living in this three-dimensional world and that’s what makes it exciting. You must be discovering the whole time. A sculptor wants to know what a thing is like from on top and from beneath—a bird’s-eye view and a worm’s-eye view. It’s infinite.”

Sited to honor Moore’s intention that this work be viewed from different angles, Large Spindle Piece is perhaps best seen against the backdrop the artist preferred above all others: the sky.
[L. Dougherty, 2024]Published ReferencesSelwa Roosevelt, "Bravo Winston-Salem," Town & Country 135, no. 5011 (March 1981), 114-15, illus. (color).

"La Chronique des Beaux-Arts," Supplement à la 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts' (March 1981), no. 239, illus. 44.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 280.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 277.

Huston Paschal, entry for Large Spindle Piece, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 233, illus. (color).

John-Paul Stonard, "Henry Moore's 'Knife edge mirror two piece' at the National Gallery of Art, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 153, no. 1297 (April 2011), mentioned 251, illus. (color) 250, fig. 44.

Neil Harris, Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, The National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013), 155–157, 531.
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