Three Women and a Child

Artist Henry Moore British, 1898–1986

Date1949

MediumInk, chalk, wax crayon and watercolor on brown wove paper

Dimensionsheight and width: 18 7/8 × 24 13/16 in. (47.9 × 63 cm)
frame: 29 1/4 × 34 7/8 × 2 in. (74.3 × 88.6 × 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineBequest of Veronese Beatty Atkins

Object number2019.16.2

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ProvenanceCreated England, 1949; collection of the artist; sold to Curt Valentin, Bucholz Gallery, New York, 1949; [Curt Valentin Gallery, New York]; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1955]; Veronese Beatty (Mrs. Warner Lewis) Atkins (1909–2013), Cincinnati, OH and Southern Pines, NC, June 29, 1959; bequeathed to NCMA, 2013.Published ReferencesAnne Garrould, Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, Vol. 3 (1940–1949) (London: The Henry Moore Foundation, 2001), no. 49.16, illus. (as Two Seated Women and One Standing Woman).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Twentieth-Century British Works on Paper,” June 12–September 30, 1984.
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