Henry Moore the Archer

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Own workPhotographer: Bengt Oberger

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Henry Moore´s The Archer or Archer (1964-65), bronze, outside Neue Nationalgallerie in Berlin, in October 2004. The official name of the sculpture is Two-way Piece No. 2. Weight: 2.5 tonnes, length: 340 cm, height: 325 cm.

The first example was erected 1966 on Nathan Phillips Square, outside the City Hall of Toronto in Canada. The Finnish architect, Viljo Revell, had asked Moore to create a sculpture in line with the flowing lines of the Town Hall.

There is also a Working Model (1964) in Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire, Great Britain. Furthermore there is a series of the sculpure in lesser scale (ca. 90 cm), owned by i.a Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada), Hirschhorn Museum (part of the Smithonian Museums, Washington D.C., USA), Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain) and University of Florida Architecture and Fine Arts Library. Gainesville, Florida, USA). The Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki in Finland has a 78 cm Archer in marble in its collection.

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