Thomas Sturge Moore
Born 4 March 1870
Died 18 July 1944
Active: 1885
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Writer, poet, designer, wood engraver
A friend of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts and a contributor to 'The Dial'. Moore was a co-founder of the Literary Theatre Club and a member of the Stage Society. He designed and illustrated books throughout his life (notably his own works and those of Yeats), and in May 1904 he was elected a member of the Society of Twelve, a group of wood-engravers and lithographers.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at Is there a Philosophy of Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at Religion and Its Relation to Art (Art Workers Guild), 1939
Speaker at Reproductive Wood Engravers from the Sixties to the Nineties (Art Workers Guild), 1938
Speaker at Rossettti and the Pre-Raphaelites (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at The Darlington Hall Experiment (Art Workers Guild), 1937
Speaker at The Principles of Art Criticism (Art Workers Guild), 1937
Speaker at Can an artist do what he likes, or are there Universal Principles of Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1936
Citing this record
'Thomas Sturge Moore', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208188874, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
