The English sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) brought about a renewed interest in direct carving and enriched the formal vocabulary of the medium by his continuous examination of figurative motifs and abstract shapes derived from natural phenomena....

He was a small and compact man, hard-muscled and plain-spoken. His finest public sculptures are powerful, totemic, warmly monumental. The artist Henry Moore-who died at 88 in 1986-eventually became a sort of monument himself. He was cherished by his countrymen. They approved his Yorkshire...

Byline: Barbara Kingstone Special to The Christian Science Monitor It often seems surprising to people when they learn that the most comprehensive and important public collection of Henry Moore's sculptures in the world is at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario and was...

The British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, whose Painted Sculpture exhibition is on view at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, has long enjoyed a highly successful career on both sides of the Atlantic. It's a career that began in England in 1951 when Mr. Caro (as he then...

Dines Mikaelsen steadies a .22 rifle against the bow of his gently bobbing boat, loads the chamber and whispers to his companions to keep quiet.The Inuit hunter has already missed twice.After a deep breath, he squeezes the trigger. The loud crack echoes off the icebergs,...