Susan Marling

Henry Moore, My Father

BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Henry Moore, My Father

Mary Moore, daughter of the sculptor Henry Moore, explores his artistic legacy.

Mary Moore, daughter of the sculptor Henry Moore, describes life with her father, and explores his artistic legacy. From 2010.

Henry Moore's daughter, Mary, refreshes our view of the life and work of Britain's foremost 20th-century sculptor. 

Contributors include Antony Gormley, Anthony Caro, Richard Wentworth and Penelope Curtis.

Mary takes listeners on a tour of the Moore's home at Hoglands in Hertfordshire, a small house crammed with extraordinary carvings and paintings from all over the world. Being Moore's only child, life for Mary was never going to be totally straightforward. Hoglands was besieged by people wanting to talk to her father and take photographs of the family having tea in the garden. Art students, including Gormley, Caro and Wentworth, 'popped up'. 

'My father was an extremely generous man who had time for anyone curious about art, unless of course he was watching the tennis,' Mary says.

The Henry Moore Foundation was formed in the last years of Moore's life and it stands as the most important supporter for sculpture in Britain.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010.

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