BARBARA HEPWORTH

Dame 'Barbara Hepworth' DBE (January 10, 1903 – May 20, 1975, christened 'Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth') was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. She is considered as great a sculptor as her contemporary and friend Henry Moore.
Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, attended Wakefield Girls High School, and studied at the Leeds School of Art (where she met Moore) and the Royal College of Art. She later studied for a period in Italy.
One of her most prestigious works is Dag Hammarskjöld, at the United Nations building in New York City.
Hepworth's first marriage was to the sculptor John Skeaping. Her second marriage was to the painter Ben Nicholson. They married in 1938; they divorced in 1951.
She was made a Dame in 1965, ten years before her death during a fire in her St Ives studio in Cornwall, aged seventy-two. The studio and her home now form the Barbara Hepworth Museum.
As well as at the Barbara Hepworth Museum, more of Hepworth's work will be on display at The Hepworth, a museum currently under construction in Wakefield. An opening in 2009 is anticipated. Her work may also be seen at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, West Yorkshire; Clare College, Churchill College and New Hall, Cambridge; and on view in or attached to the John Lewis department store, Oxford Street (see picture); and Kenwood House, both in London. Her 1966 work "Construction (Crucifixion): Homage to Mondrian" can be seen in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral next to the Pilgrims' School. The Tate Gallery own many of her works.

Contents

Selected works

List of selected works

References

External links

Selected works

List of selected works

1928	''Doves''	Parian marble
1932-33	''Seated Figure''	lignum vitae
1933	''Two Forms	alabaster and limestone
1934	''Mother and Child''	Cumberland alabaster
1935	''Three Forms''	Serravezza marble
1936	''Ball Plane and Hole''	lignum vitae, mahogany and oak
1940	''Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red)''	mixed
1943	''Oval Sculpture''	cast material
1943-44	''Wave''	wood, paint and string
1944	''Landscape Sculpture''	wood (cast in bronze, 1961)
1946	''Pelagos''	wood, paint and string
	''Tides''	wood and paint
1949	''Operation: Case for Discussion''	oil and pencil on pressed paperboard
1951	''Group I (Concourse) February 4 1951''	Serravezza marble
1953	''Hieroglyph''	Ancaster stone
1954-55	''Two Figures''	teak and paint
1955	''Oval Sculpture (Delos)''	scented guarea wood and paint
1955-56	''Coré''	bronze
1956	''Orpheus (Maquette), Version II''	brass and cotton string
	''Stringed Figure (Curlew), Version II''	brass and cotton string
1958	''Cantate Domino''	bronze
	''Sea Form (Porthmeor)''	bronze
1960	''Figure for a Landscape''	bronze
	''Archaeon''	bronze
1962-63	''Bronze Form (Patmos)''	bronze
1964	''Rock Form (Porthcurno)''	bronze
	''Sea Form (Atlantic)''	bronze
1966	''Figure in a Landscape''	bronze on wooden base
	''Four-Square Walk Through''	bronze
1968	''Two Figures''	bronze
1970	''Family of Man''	bronze
1971	''The Aegean Suite''	series of prints
	''Summer Dance''	painted bronze
1972	''Minoan Head''	marble on wooden base
	''Assembly of Sea Forms''	white marble mounted on stainless steel base
1973?	''Conversation with Magic Stones''	bronze and silver

References

★ Penelope Curtis, ''Barbara Hepworth''. Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-225-4.

★ Barbara Hepworth, ''Hepworth, Barbara: A Pictorial Autobiography''. Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-149-5.

External links

★ Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden

★ Barbara Hepworth in the Tate Collection

★ Yorkshire Scuplture Park

★ The Hepworth