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Elephant Skull Album Elephant Skull Album

Elephant Skull Album

Henry Moore

Art Funded
1998
Presented by
Moyra Smart through The Art Fund
The album was made in response to the gift of an elephant's skull in the late 1960s.

Moore kept the skull in his studio, finding inspiration in its shapes, and textures, which were suggestive of landscape forms.

Ink on handmade Rives paper

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Towner Art Gallery

Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4JJ
01323 434670
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Art we’ve helped buy at Towner Art Gallery

Beachy Head
 Acquired
Woman Ironing
 Acquired 2003
View of Martello Towers near Bexhill, looking towards Beachy Head
 Acquired 1979
Three Airmail paintings: 1) Nine Survivors (Three Stains); 2) The 13th History of the Human Face (The Portal of H.); 3) Absent Feet
 Acquired 2012
The Roar of the Lions
 Acquired 2012
The Old Woman in the Garden No. 2
 Acquired 1970
The Great Happiness
 Acquired 2001
The Downs & Landscape and Stream, Eventide & River Scene with Bridge and Buildings & Madeira Walk, Brighton
 Acquired 1935
Summer Camp
 Acquired 2011
Starlight: landscape
 Acquired 2009
St James Hospital, near Lewes
 Acquired 1936
September: 8:30pm (Newhaven)
 Acquired 2008
Self-Portrait in Character
 Acquired 1971
Sea View
 Acquired 1991
Nine works on paper
 Acquired 1998
Nina Hamnett on Sofa
 Acquired 2009
My Westphalia Days
 Acquired 2012
Meadow near Lansing
 Acquired 2008
Litlington, Sussex
 Acquired 2009
Judd's Farm
 Acquired 1996
Hever
 Acquired 1939
Girl's Head
 Acquired 2009
Evaders
 Acquired 2011
Elephant Skull Album
 Acquired 1998
Dawn Invocation
 Acquired 2001
Composition, Blue Centre
 Acquired 2003
Collection of works
 Acquired 2009
Collection of five watercolours
 Acquired 1972
Coast Scene with Approaching Storm
 Acquired 2000
Beachy Head
 Acquired 1992
Allotments - Chislehurst, Kent
 Acquired 2010
1) Newhaven, The Castle 1934, 2) Newhaven 1937
 Acquired 2011
1) Naked woman standing with arms crossed; 2) Head of a Woman; 3) Head and Shoulders of a Woman
 Acquired 2009

The two-screen film Evaders, bought for Towner with a grant from the Art Fund International programme in 2011, explores the mountainous path of the Lister Route, used by many to escape Nazi-occupied France. The film focuses on the ill-fated journey of Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin.

Watch the artist Ori Gersht explain the work in his studio.

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Exhibitions at Towner Art Gallery

Peter Lanyon, Ground Sea, 1961

Figure Study II: Joe Hill curates the Towner Collection

  • Towner Art Gallery
  • Until 6 May 2019
  • Free to all
Opening Soon
Cathy Wilkes, Untitled, 2005

The Weather Garden

  • Towner Art Gallery
  • 17 February – 2 June 2019
  • Free to all

Image credit

1 . Elephant Skull Album

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