Study of Dorothy Hodgkin's hands Drawing by Henry Moore of Hodgkin's hands. Henry Moore, a sculptor as well as a fine draughtsman, had met Dorothy Hodgkin many years before this drawing of her hands was executed. He declined to undertake a conventional portrait of her, but produced instead this exploration of form. Hodgkin was an x-ray crystallographer - manual dexterity was important for her research. She started to have problems with rheumatoid arthritis when she was only 28. 1978