Loans to Bill Brandt / Henry Moore

Yale Centre for British Art, USA

The Hyman Collection is delighted to be one of the main lenders to the exhibition Bill Brandt-Henry Moore , loaning serveral important works by Bill Brandt to the new exhibition at the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, USA.

 

PRESS RELEASE

Bill Brandt / Henry Moore

Thursday, November 17, 2022–Sunday, February 26, 2023

“The camera,” said Orson Welles, “is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” It was the camera, and the political and cultural circumstances of picture-making during the Second World War, that first brought Bill Brandt and Henry Moore together. During the Blitz, these two artists—a German and an Englishman—each produced images depicting people sheltering in the London Underground. These “shelter pictures” were circulated to millions in the form of photographic reproductions on the pages of magazines. Today they rank among the most iconic works of the period.


This exhibition begins with these wartime images, setting their production within the visual culture of the war, and examines the parallel and intersecting paths of the artists through the postwar period. Key themes include war, industry, and coal mining; urban space, living conditions, and family life; landscape and the great megalithic sites of Britain; and found objects, fragments of nature, and the human body.

 

PUBLICATION

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated book edited by Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Yale Center for British Art, and Paul Messier, the Pritzker Director of the Lens Media Lab at the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Learn more here.

 

RELATED PROGRAMS

Opening Conversation | Sculpture, Photography, and the Printed Page
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 4 pm
Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Yale Center for British Art and Paul Messier, Pritzker Director of the Lens Media Lab at the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

 

CREDITS

Bill Brandt | Henry Moore was curated by Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Yale Center for British Art, and organized in partnership with The Hepworth Wakefield, UK. It was on view at The Hepworth Wakefield February 6 to November 1, 2020, and at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, May 18 to August 22, 2021. The exhibition and its accompanying publication were generously supported by David Dechman and Michel Mercure, Laura and James Duncan (Yale BA 1975), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the John Pritzker Family Fund.

 

IMAGE
BILL BRANDT, HENRY MOORE (DETAIL), 1948, GELATIN SILVER PRINT, HYMAN COLLECTION, LONDON, © BILL BRANDT/BILL BRANDT ARCHIVE LTD.
 
November 6, 2022