Portrait Bust of Dennis Silk
Dennis Silk sat for sculptor and former Radley College pupil Alan Thornhill for a portrait in clay. The correspondence file relating to the Silk portrait bust is held as part of the Thornhill Papers (2006:56) in the archive of the Henry Moore Foundation's Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and the terracotta remains in the collection of the artist.
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