Henry Moore Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other graphic works on paper. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted
Alma Allen (artist) Alma Allen (artist) Alma Allen (born 1970 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor who lives and works in Joshua Tree, California. Carved from foraged wood and stone or cast in bronze, Allen's sculptures range in scale from thimble-sized fetishes to half ton pseudo-figures. Though made of the densest materials, the highly polished works appear to be in states of silent, inchoate movement. The "New York Times" described the shapes as "sensuous biomorphic forms," and 2014 Whitney Biennial co-curator Michelle Grabner located the oeurve as "an offspring of Brancusi and early 20th century abstraction." Grabner selected three of