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Henry Moore
Birth Year :	1898
Death Year :	1986
Country :	United Kingdom

Henry Moore was born in England, the seventh of ten children, to a coal miner who taught himself enough mathematics to

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enable him to become manager of the mine in which he worked. Moore always liked the art lessons given at school and he decided to become a sculptor when he was eleven years old and heard in Sunday school a story about Michelangelo. Moore himself says that he owes a great deal to an art teacher in elementary school who encouraged him as much as she could.

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