The Arch 1979–1980

The Arch 1979–1980

The Arch in May 2014
Artist	Henry Moore
Year	1979–1980
Type	Stone sculpture
Medium	Travertine
Location	London, United Kingdom

The Arch 1979–1980 is a large stone sculpture by Henry Moore located in Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park, London. It was given to the park by Moore in 1980. The Arch was found to be unstable in 1996, and was subsequently dismantled and placed into storage. It was restored and replaced in its original location in 2012.^[1]

References

Henry Moore
Sculptures	Three Standing Figures 1947 Reclining Figure: Festival King and Queen Draped Reclining Figure, 1952–53 Large Interior Form, 1953-54 Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross Seated Woman, 1957 Draped Seated Woman 1957–58 Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 Three-Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop Man Enters the Cosmos Three-Way Piece: Points Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 Nuclear Energy Spindle Piece Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model) Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae Reclining Figure 1969–70 Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points Sheep Piece 1971–72 Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 Hill Arches 1973 Goslar Warrior 1973–1974 Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 The Arch 1979–1980
Assistants	Anthony Caro Phillip King Richard Wentworth Isaac Witkin
Associated with	Barbara Hepworth
Supporters	Kenneth Clark
Institutions	Henry Moore Foundation

Public art and memorials in London
Statues	Monarchs Richard I Charles I Charles II James II Anne St Paul's Westminster George III George IV George V George VI Others Alanbrooke Becket Bolívar Brunel Burns Cambridge Canning Chaplin Churchill Clive Cook Cromwell Derby Devonshire Disraeli Frere Freud Gagarin Gandhi Greathead Haig Havelock Herbert Holmes Irving Jenner Kitchener Lawson Lincoln Lloyd George Mandela Moore Montgomery Mountbatten Myddelton Napier Newman Nightingale Orwell Outram Palmerston Peel Raikes Reynolds Roberts San Martín Shakespeare Slim Smuts Trajan Wallenberg Washington Wellington City Hyde Park Corner Wesley St Paul's Shoreditch Westminster White Winehouse Wolseley
Memorials	7 July Memorial Albert Memorial Queen Alexandra Memorial Anti-Air War Memorial Bali Bombings Memorial Bazalgette Memorial Bolan's Rock Shrine Breathing Bromhead Memorial Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial Edith Cavell Memorial Cheylesmore Memorial Agatha Christie Memorial Donne Memorial Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross (Charing Cross) Faraday Memorial George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial Golden Boy of Pye Corner Grace Gates Memorial to the Great Exhibition Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice Hogg Memorial Holocaust Memorial Kennedy Memorial Kindertransport – The Arrival Lister Memorial The Monument National Firefighters Memorial National Police Memorial Nelson's Column Pankhurst Memorial Queen Elizabeth Gate Suffragette Memorial Victoria Memorial Twelve Responses to Tragedy ("Yalta Memorial") Wellington Arch Wellington Monument Whittington Stone A Conversation with Oscar Wilde Duke of York Column
War memorials	Pre-WWI Animals in War Crimean War Gurkhas (1816–) Marble Arch New Zealand Campaign (1863–64) Royal Marines (1899–) Siege of Cádiz Westminster School WWI WWII Australia Baltic Exchange Battle of Britain Belgium Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red Bromley Canada Cavalry The Cenotaph Chindits Chingford Chipping Barnet Civil Service Rifles Cockfosters Croydon La Délivrance Enfield Town (3 memorials) Finchley Flanders Fields Memorial Garden Fulham Golders Green Great Eastern Railway Great Western Railway Guards Division Hampton Wick Hendon Hornsey Imperial Camel Corps Islington London and North Western Railway London Troops Machine Gun Corps Memorial Gates Merchant Navy Monken Hadley New Barnet New Zealand Paddington Poland Poplar Rainham Royal Air Force Rifle Brigade RAF Bomber Command Royal Artillery Royal Fusiliers Royal Naval Division Royal Tank Regiment South Africa (Richmond) South Suburban Gas Company Southwark Submarines Women of World War II Wood Green Post-WWII Korean War
Fountains	Buxton Memorial Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Diana Fountain, Bushy Park Diana Fountain, Green Park Fawcett Memorial The Horses of Helios Guilford Place Matilda Fountain Revolving Torsion Roehampton St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Magdalene Shaftesbury Memorial ("Eros") Lady Henry Somerset Memorial Victoria Park
Murals	Brixton Cable Street Poplar Rates Rebellion Sutton twin towns Sutton Heritage Mosaic Topolski Century
Other works	ArcelorMittal Orbit The Arch 1979–1980 The Barbican Muse Big 4 Boadicea and Her Daughters Bull The Burghers of Calais Christ Child Crystal Palace Dinosaurs The Diver Dolphin lamp standards Dragon boundary marks Elfin Oak Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square Fulcrum The Gold Smelters Homage to Leonardo Icarus Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 Labyrinth London Noses London Pride The Messenger Millennium Dial The Naked Ladies Nike Old Father Time Paternoster Paternoster Vents Physical Energy Platforms Piece Quantum Cloud The Queen's Beasts Rush of Green St Paul's Cross Single Form (Memorial) A Slice of Reality Slipstream South Bank Lion Still Water Traffic Light Tree Winged Figure World World Cup Sculpture The Young Lovers Three Standing Figures 1947 Talking Statues Works formerly in London
Blue plaques	Camden Kensington and Chelsea City of Westminster
By borough	City of Westminster Hyde Park Kensington Gardens (partly in Kensington and Chelsea) Paddington St Marylebone Architectural sculpture City of London (not a London borough) Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth
Organisations	Art on the Underground London Mural Preservation Society Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
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