There is ample room to debate the influence that Henry Moore had on modern sculpture. But the sheer pervasiveness of his work is not in doubt. When he died last week at the age of 88 in the farmhouse where he had lived and worked for more than 40 years, near the English village of Much Hadham, Henry Moore, C.H., O.M., was the best-known sculptor in the world.
His public works in marble and bronze, mainly based on the human figure, stood, sat and (especially) reclined on their plinths in cities from London to Chicago, from Melbourne to New York. No...
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