Barbara Hepworth

Hepworth's Family of Man in bronze, 1970, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

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.

1 Gallery
2 List of selected works
3 References
4 External links

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

List of selected works

Winged Figure, 1963, on the side of the John Lewis department store, Oxford Street, London. Sphere with Inner Form (1963) at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands. 1928 Doves Parian marble1932-33 Seated Figure lignum vitae1933 Two Forms alabasterand limestone1934 Mother and Child Cumberland alabaster 1935 Three Forms Serravezza marble 1936 Ball Plane and Hole lignum vitae, mahoganyand 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 paperboard1949 Operation: Case for Discussion oil and pencil on pressed paperboard1951 Group I (Concourse) February 4 1951 Serravezza marble 1953 Hieroglyph Ancaster stone1954-55 Two Figures teakand paint 1955 Oval Sculpture (Delos) scented guareawood 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 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.