Dame Barbara Hepworth, the English abstract sculptor, is honored in today's Google Doodle, on the anniversary of the day she arrived in St. Ives and established her studio. In the Doodle, Hepworth can ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --Google is celebrating abstract sculptor Barbara Hepworth with a new Doodle. Hepworth is considered to be one of the most impactful sculptors of the mid-20th century. Tuesday marks the ...

Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1903 and working until her death in 1975 in St Ives, Cornwall, Barbara Hepworth lived through a time of astonishing technological and social change. She had a broad ...

The Tate Britain has released details on the first large-scale London exhibition of Barbara Hepworth’s artwork since 1968. “Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World” will open in October and ...

The U.K. has successfully raised £3.8 million ($5.1 million) to save Barbara Hepworth’s (1903–1975) Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red for the nation. Created by one of Britain’s most ...

Commissioned by Air Commodore Whitney Straight, C.B.E., M.C., D.F.C., London. Sir Hugh Casson, R.A., London. Sold to benefit The Royal Academy Hugh Casson Drawing ...

I am constantly plagued by this little-woman attitude,” the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth told an interviewer in 1966. “There is a deep prejudice against women in art.” She had reason to be tetchy ...

58 x 80.5 cm. (22.8 x 31.7 in.) Having worked on figurative drawings in the 1940s and early 1950s, by the 1960s Hepworth once again focused on the abstract. Space and the relationship between shapes ...

Introduction / Penelope Curtis and Chris Stephens -- Crafting modernism: Hepworth's practice in the 1920s / Ann Compton -- Reflections on a relationship: Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, the early ...

“Art is beyond sex,” says Barbara Hepworth, and she would deplore being called Britain’s top woman sculptor. Yet she is, and more: after her old friend Henry Moore, she is possibly Britain’s best ...

When her triplets were born in 1934, Sculptress Barbara Hepworth laid aside her hammer and chisel for a whole month. Otherwise, domestic duties have rarely kept her from her work as an artist. As a ...

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