Bill Brandt / Henry Moore at The Hepworth Wakefield

Name: Bill Brandt / Henry Moore at The Hepworth Wakefield
Start: 2020-02-07T10:00:00
End: 2020-05-31T17:00:00
Location: The Hepworth Wakefield

Creative Tourist Posted 27 January 2020

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Bill Brandt / Henry Moore

The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield

7 February-31 May 2020

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Bill Brandt / Henry Moore at The Hepworth Wakefield — Bill Brandt, Nude, East Sussex Coast. Gelatin silver print, 1960. Bill Brandt Archive, London, © Bill Brandt / Bill Brandt Archive Ltd.

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This major exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield brings together over 200 works highlighting the relationships between sculpture, photography, drawing and collage revealed through Bill Brandt and Henry Moore’s shared interests in the themes of labour, society, industry, the British landscape and the human body. The exhibition includes Moore’s celebrated Reclining Figure sculptures and Brandt’s well-known photographs of coal miners and their families in Durham and Yorkshire, rare original colour transparencies by Brandt, and Moore’s little-known photo collages.

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