| Description | [1-6] Includes negatives from an envelope inscribed 'West Chilington', the Moore's family home, which include an image of the house, pictures of Joan Moore and Kenneth Armitage and two later images of Joan Moore and interior view of the house with a sculpture in the background.
[7-12] Six family photographs on English holidays including a photograph of a boat scene, may include images of Joan Moore.
[13] Negative possibly of Kenneth Armitage in uniform with Joan Moore.
[14] Possible image of Joan Moore with boats and birds on a quayside, from an envelope inscribed 'Greece'.
[15-23] Series of negatives showing sculpture in situ at the Open Air Exhibitions, Battersea Park, London, 1948 and 1951, including from 1948 Jacob Epstein's 'The Girl with the Gardenias' [15], Eric Gill's 'Mankind' [16], Aristide Maillol's 'The Blanqui Monument' [17] and Auguste Rodin's 'Age of Bronze' [18] and from 1951 Giacomo Manzu's 'Child on a Chair' [19], three views of Mariono Marini's 'Horseman' [20-22] and Fritz Wotruba's 'Human Cathedral' [23].
[24] Negative from an envelope inscribed 'Picasso in Paris' of Pablo Picasso's 'Head of a Woman', 1932, in an outdoor setting.
[25-48] Six medium format colour negatives and eighteen medium format black and white negatives in a sleeve inscribed 'Bussana, Italy', showing people, studio spaces and an exhibition.
[49-57]Colour and black and white medium format negatives of the exterior of Joan Moore's Gordon Close studio, some images show an early reclining male and female carving and one image is of a man looking at a sculpture.
[58-137] Medium format negatives of animal sculpture, some which show incorporated or cast 'found elements'.
[138-190] Medium format colour negatives of animal sculptures, including installation views at an exhibition.
[191-326] Colour 18mm and 35mm negatives mainly of animal sculptures, some relate to photographs in F/5 and also include personal photographs, installation photographs of unidentified sculpture exhibitions, photographs of Henry Moore's 'King and Queen' at Glenkiln Estate, Dumfriesshire, Scotland and photographs of animals. |