Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook

comments by Henry Moore and Kenneth Clark

Henry Moore’s studio in the English countryside overlooked fields where a farmer grazed his sheep. Moore was fascinated by their shapes, perceiving that underneath all the wool was a body, which moved in its own way, and that each sheep had its individual character. This is a facsimile edition of Henry Moore’s sketchbook of drawings of sheep, originally presented to his daughter, Mary, in 1972. The tender, vigorous drawings, many of them of a ewe with her lamb, evoke the mother and child theme—a large form sheltering a small one—which was important to Henry Moore in all his work.

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