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Barbara Hepworth
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.
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culture · English artist and sculptor (1903–1975) · sculptor · painter · draftsperson · photographer · artist · visual artist · also Barbara Hepworth, Mrs. John Rattenbury Skeaping, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Mrs. Ben Nicholson, Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth, Barbara, Dame Hepworth
Born 10 January 1903 · Died 20 May 1975 · Q234109
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Artnet: U.K. Raises $5 Million to Keep Rare Barbara Hepworth Sculpture
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The Art Newspaper: Barbara Hepworth sculpture rediscovered in UK school headmaster’s office to be auctioned
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2024· 1 entry
Artnet: A Cache of Unseen Letters From Sculptor Barbara Hepworth Heads to Auction
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2021· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Barbara Hepworth’s Monumental Elegance
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Wall Street Journal: Inside Sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s Most Expansive Retrospective
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2020· 2 entries
CNET: Google Doodle celebrates modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth
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Newsweek: Who is Barbara Hepworth? Google Doodle Celebrates English Abstract Sculptor
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2019· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Understanding Barbara Hepworth's Life Through 6 Important Works
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2015· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: A Barbara Hepworth Retrospective Hampered by Her Male Contemporaries
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Wall Street Journal: Revisiting Barbara Hepworth
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2011· 1 entry
The Hepworth Wakefield opened in Hepworth's hometown of Wakefield, England
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1975· 2 entries
Died 1975-05-20.
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“It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.”
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1973· 1 entry
Was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1968· 1 entry
As an acknowledgment of her significant contributions to the town; she was a member of the St Ives Trust (which sought to protect the town's character and architectural heritage), a founder member of the 'Art in Schools'
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1961· 1 entry
Following Hammarskjöld's death in a plane crash
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1960· 2 entries
When she purchased the Palais de Danse, a former cinema and dance hall, that was situated across the street from Trewyn
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“[the 1960's began] with a feeling of tremendous liberation, because I at last had space and money and time to work on a much bigger scale.”
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1957· 1 entry
To Galerie Chalette, run by Arthur and Madeleine Lejwa, known for their close relationship with Jean Arp, and dedication to close relationships with their artists
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1951· 1 entry
Hepworth was commissioned by the Arts Council to create a piece for the Festival of Britain
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1950· 1 entry
Works by Hepworth were exhibited in the British Pavilion at the XXV Venice Biennale alongside works by Matthew Smith and John Constable
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1944· 1 entry
Struck up a close friendship with the surgeon Norman Capener
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1937· 1 entry
Designed the layout for Circle: An International Survey of Constructivist Art, a 300-page book that surveyed Constructivist artists and that was published in London and edited by Nicholson, Naum Gabo, and Leslie Mart
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1933· 2 entries
Hepworth co-founded the Unit One art movement with Nicholson and Paul Nash, the critic Herbert Read, and the architect Wells Coates
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Hepworth travelled with Nicholson to France, where they visited the studios of Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brâncuși
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1931· 3 entries
Hepworth was the first to sculpt the pierced figures that are characteristic of both her own work and, later, that of Henry Moore
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Hepworth met and fell in love with abstract painter Ben Nicholson; however, both were still married at the time
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Fell in love with the painter Ben Nicholson, and in 1933 divorced Skeaping
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1926· 1 entry
Where they exhibited their works together from their flat
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-01-10.
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