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"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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