Barbara Hepworth
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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 was a contemporary and friend of Henry Moore.
==Life and workHepworth 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.
Barbara Hepworth is one of the most significant sculptors and artists of the 20th century. Her work exemplifies Modernism and along with her contemporaries in England such as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and others she helped to develop modern art (sculpture in particular) immeasurably.
One of her most prestigious works is Single Form, in memory of 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 and 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; Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk; and on view in or attached to the John Lewis department store, part of the John Lewis Partnership, in 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 The Pilgrims' School. The Tate Gallery owns many of her works.
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[edit] Gallery
 Monolith-Empyrean, 1953 |
 Oval form, 1966 |
 Sphere with Inner Form (1963) at Trewyn Garden, St Ives, Cornwall. |
 Four Square Walk through, 1966 |
 Construction (Crucifixion): Homage to Mondrian, outside Winchester Cathedral |
 Explanation of Construction (Crucifixion): Homage to Mondrian |
 "Achaean" ca. 1963, at St. Catherine's College, Oxford |
[edit] 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 | |
| 1947 | Blue and green (arthroplasty) 31 December 1947 | oil and pencil on pressed paperboard |
| 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 | |
| Oval Form (Trezion) | 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 |
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| 1973? | Conversation with Magic Stones | bronze and silver |
[edit] 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.
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