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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. Although not as renowned, she is generally 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 was Single Form (1961–1964), a memorial to the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, at the United Nations building in New York City.
Hepworth married the sculptor John Skeaping before becoming the painter Ben Nicholson's second wife 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 the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, West Yorkshire; 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.
Contents |
 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 |
| 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 |
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| 1973? | Conversation with Magic Stones | bronze and silver |
- 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.
