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View all 13 artworks. Barbara Hepworth lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of British Abstract Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- British
- January 10, 1903
- Wakefield, United Kingdom
- May 20, 1975
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- The Legacy of Barbara Hepworth
Hepworth was the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth, a civil engineer. She would frequently accompany her father on car trips round the Yorkshire countryside, and she spent summer holidays at Robin Hood's Bay, also in Yorkshire. This early connection with rural settings was to influence much of her work. After attending the Wakefield Gir...
She was awarded a West Riding Scholarship in 1924, which allowed her to spend a year traveling abroad. She spent several months in Florence, Italy, where she studied Romanesque architecture and early Italian Renaissance art. She also traveled to Rome and Siena. In Florence's Palazzo Vecchio in May 1925 she married Skeaping, who specialized in sculp...
In 1931, Hepworth met abstract painter Ben Nicholsonand began a relationship. Hepworth separated from her husband in the same year. The breakdown of their marriage, and the start of Hepworth's relationship with Nicholson (who was also married), was marked by a working holiday to the Norfolk coast organized by Hepworth and Henry Moore. The divorce f...
Though she had often felt in Moore's shadow in terms of fame and recognition, Hepworth's public visibility increased when her work was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1950 and as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. Hepworth's marriage to Nicholson dissolved in the same year, although he remained in St Ives until 1958. Her work was considerably...
Along with her friend Henry Moore, Hepworth was fundamental in establishing a characteristic vocabulary of modern British sculpture. Through a shared interest in the ideal of "truth to materials", or to a sculptural form dictated in part by the inherent properties of the media used, Hepworth and Moore created an approach focused on process and mate...
- British
- January 10, 1903
- Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK
- May 20, 1975
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Jan 19, 2015 · A new exhibition celebrating the work of acclaimed sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth will feature a series of photographs rediscovered in her archive.
