If you go looking for Henry Moore at the corner of Dundas and McCaul, you will be disappointed.
Instead, you have to walk around the corner.
After residing at the corner of Dundas and McCaul since 1974, Henry Moore’s sculpture “Large Two Forms” was moved to the newly renovated Grange Park on the 3rd of June. Grange Park is behind the Art Gallery of Ontario as well as OCADU (Ontario College of Art and Design University).
The new setting suits the sculpture. There is more room for people to interact with the sculpture and the park makes a more picturesque background for those who like to take photos.
I’d be interested in knowing if the AGO has any plans for the now empty corner at Dundas and McCaul. Was the construction pictured above just to remove the platform that the sculpture used to be on? Or is there more to it than that?
Also, I don’t mean to spoil your fun, but how long will it be until a “do not climb” sign appears in Grange Park? I’m not advocating for one – I just know how the city acts on things like this. Part of me says, “Quick, get your selfie from on top of the sculpture while you can!”
A little extra that I discovered this morning. As I wrote this blog post I kept thinking about “Down By the Henry Moore”, a song from my past. All I could recall was the title. I found a great version of it on youtube – the song was written and sung by Murray McLauchlan and was released in 1974. The Henry Moore referred to in the song is the one in front of City Hall but the video on youtube has some fabulous old picture of Toronto! Many thanks to john allore who made the video and uploaded it to youtube. I really enjoyed seeing the old images, down memory lane and all that. If you are interested, this is the link; it will open youtube in a new page. You may have to suffer through a few seconds of ads and you have my apologies for that.
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Terrif to see the Henry Moore in its new location – I’d left town before that happened. Re your point about people climbing on it: they always did. As an AGO volunteer, I was aware that staff were resigned to its role as kiddy-slide and selfie-magnet, commenting that the surface was already worn almost to the rivets and would some day have to be repatinated. Perhaps now that it is in a more removed, less hurly-burly setting, they may try to impose the usual respect-the-art approach.