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Perry Green is a scattered hamlet in Hertfordshire, England, near Much Hadham. [1]St. Thomas's Church, Perry Green. The sculptor Henry Moore settled there in 1941. [2] His house Hoglands now forms part of a sculpture garden featuring his work, run by the Henry Moore Foundation.
Much Hadham, formerly known as Great Hadham, is a village and civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England.The parish of Much Hadham contains the hamlets of Perry Green and Green Tye, as well as the village of Much Hadham itself and Hadham Cross.
The three casts are on public display on College Green in Westminster, London; Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver; and the garden at Kykuit, the house of the Rockefeller family in Tarrytown, New York. Moore's own cast is on display at his former studio and estate, 'Hoglands' in Perry Green, Hertfordshire in southern
Henry Moore's house, now the headquarters of the Henry Moore Foundation. The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity in England, established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore, and to promote the public appreciation of sculpture more generally.
Today, the Henry Moore Foundation manages the artist's former home at Perry Green in Hertfordshire as a visitor destination, with 70 acres (28 ha) of sculpture grounds as well as his restored house and studios. It also runs the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds which organises exhibitions and research activities in international sculpture.
The plaster maquette and the bronze artist's copy, cast 0, are held by the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. Another example is at the Art Gallery of Ontario . Moore increased the scale of the work in 1968–69, to create Working Model for Oval With Points (LH 595) measuring 118 by 92 by 54 centimetres (46 in × 36 in × 21 in).
Two full-size fibreglass versions were cast in 1971, both held by the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. Three bronze casts were originally made, including one artist's model, and a fourth was created much later in 1987, measuring 293.5 by 208 by 260 centimetres (115.6 in × 81.9 in × 102.4 in), and weighing about 1,800 ...
It is approximately 4.7m long. Seven casts and an artist's proof were made. Three publicly exhibited casts are situated in the Sodra Kungsgatan in Gävle, Sweden, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA, [2] and the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. [3]