Sculpture Park

Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), one of the most important artists of the Soviet avant-garde, is most famous for this design. The unrealised tower was intended to be 400m tall and to straddle the river Neva in St Petersburg. It has been reconstructed by British architect Jeremy Dixon and Chris Milan of Dixon Jones at a scale of 1:40 | Steel and composites | Collection of the Sainsbury Centre. Object number: 31504 | Donated by the Royal Academy of Arts, 2012 | Location: south side of the Sainsbury Centre

Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993), inspired by seeing heat hazes and flamingos in the South of France, made these part-bird, part-human creatures. Frink described the visions as ‘sort of birds, or it could be a person, or a tree. Any of those make this extraordinary stalking shape that shimmers across’ | Bronze | Object Nos. L.106 and L.107 | On loan from the Elisabeth Frink Estate and Archives | Location: west end of the Broad

For Henry Moore (1898-1986), the reclining figure offered endless possibilities for experimentation and they ranged from adopting elements of classicism to very abstract in style. The biomorphic Reclining Figure demonstrates the influence of Picasso and Surrealism | Bronze | Collection of the Sainsbury Centre | Object No. 85 | Location: east end garden of the Sainsbury Centre

Henry Moore, Draped Reclining Woman, 1957–58
Reminiscent of his shelter drawings created during the Blitz in 1940–41, Moore returned to drapery after seeing classical sculpture in Greece in 1951. Moore said the suggestion of fabric ‘can emphasise the tension in a figure’.

Lynn Chadwick, Beasts, 1990
In the 1950s Chadwick was known as one of the ‘Geometry of Fear’ group, who were British sculptors characterised by welded, spiky forms. The Beasts were among the final works Chadwick made. In steel, the geometry of his earlier bronzes is intensified with sharply defined angles.