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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. [3] Double Oval by Henry Moore, from Henry Moore Sculpture Perry ...
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. It covers 4,490 acres (1,820 ha). [ 2 ] The village of Much Hadham is situated midway between Ware and Bishop's Stortford .
The artist's copy was given to the Henry Moore Foundation and is on display in their sculpture garden around his old house at Perry Green, Hertfordshire. [4] Other copies in the edition are in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany .
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.
Perry Green may refer to: Perry Green (poker player) (born c. 1936), American poker player; Perry Joseph Green, American philosopher and preacher of the New Thought Movement in the early 1900s; Perry Green, Essex, a hamlet near the village of Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall, England; Perry Green, Hertfordshire, hamlet in England; Perry Green ...
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 original Large Reclining Figure (LH 192b) is outside the OCBC Centre in Singapore, with an artist's copy in bronze at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. There is also a 9 metres (30 ft) long white fibreglass version of the enlarged sculpture, which was displayed at Kew Gardens in 2004.
Sheep Piece is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore made in three sizes from 1969-1972, starting in 1969 with a 14 centimetres (5.5 in) maquette (LH 625) modelled in plaster and then cast in bronze, enlarged in 1971 to a 142 centimetres (56 in) working model (LH 626) in plaster and then cast in bronze, and finally a full size bronze (LH 627) on a monumental scale, 570 centimetres (220 in) high ...