| Biography |
| 1903 |
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Born January 10th in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. |
| 1920 |
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Wins scholarship to Leeds School of Art, England. |
| 1921-24 |
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Awarded scholarship and begins studies in sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London, England. Meets Henry Moore. |
| 1924 |
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Awarded RCA diploma and wins a scholarship for travel to Italy. |
| 1925 |
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Travels though Italy with sculptor John Skeaping. They marry in Florence on 13th May and move to Rome where both begin carving in stone. |
| 1926 |
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Returns to England in November. |
| 1929 |
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Son Paul is born in August, but marriage to Skeaping is deteriorating. They amicably divorce in 1933. |
| 1931 |
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Meets Ben Nicholson who joins her on holiday in Happisburgh, Norfolk. Joins the London Group and the Seven and Five Society and exhibits until its demise in 1936. |
| 1933 |
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Visits Paris with Ben Nicholson and meets Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brancusi. |
| 1934 |
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Gives birth to triplets. |
| 1935 |
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Meets Naum Gabo and Piet Mondrian in Paris, France. |
| 1938 |
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Marries Ben Nicholson (ends in 1951). |
| 1939 |
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Moves to St. Ives, Cornwall, England. |
| 1949 |
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Founds Penwith Society for Arts in Cornwall, England. |
| 1951 |
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Buys Trewyn Studio in St. Ives and moves there permanently. |
| 1958 |
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Receives CBE in New Year’s Honours List. |
| 1964 |
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Becomes a trustee of the Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1966 |
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Diagnosed with throat cancer, cared for by specialist Stanley Lee at Westminster Hospital, London, England. |
| 1968 |
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Awarded Honorary Degree from University of Oxford, England. |
| 1975 |
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Dies May 20th at home in St. Ives, Cornwall, England. |
| 1976 |
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Opening of Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, Cornwall, England. |
Selected exhibitions
| 1928 |
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First solo exhibition at the Beaux Art Gallery, London, England. |
| 1932 |
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Joint exhibition with Ben Nicholson at Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery, London, England. |
| 1943 |
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First retrospective exhibition, held at Temple Newsam, Leeds, England. |
| 1946 |
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First post-war solo show at Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, England. |
| 1951 |
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Retrospective exhibition held in native town of Wakefield, Yorkshire, opened by Sir Herbert Read. |
| 1954 |
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‘Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective of Carvings and Drawings from 1927-1954’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. |
| 1959 |
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5th Sao Paulo Biennal, Brazil. |
| 1962 |
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‘Barbara Hepworth: An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962’, major retrospective exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. |
| 1963 |
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7th Biennale, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1964 |
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'Barbara Hepworth', The British Council European Tour. |
| 1966 |
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Fifth International Sculpture Exhibition at Sonsbeek, The Netherlands. |
| 1968 |
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'Barbara Hepworth’, major retrospective exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1971 |
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‘Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Lithographs’, Arts Council Tour. |
| 1979 |
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‘Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes’, Marlborough Fine Art, London and Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA. |
| 1981 |
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‘Barbara Hepworth: From the Museum Collection, Hishhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. |
| 1987-88 |
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‘Barbara Hepworth: Ten Sculptures 1951-1973’, New Art Centre, London, England. |
| 1996 |
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‘Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture from the Estate’, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA. |
| 2001-02 |
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‘Barbara Hepworth’, Robert Sandelson, London, England. |
| 2003 |
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'Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections’, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA.
‘Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition’, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall.
‘The Stages of Drawing: Gesture and Acts. Selected from the Tate Collection’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. |
| 2004 |
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'Art of the Garden’, Tate Britain, London, England.
‘Artists of the St. Ives School: The Essential Image’, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England.
‘Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture’, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran. |
| 2005 |
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‘Sculpture in the Open Air’, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
‘A Feeling for Form: Modernism in British and New Zealand Art’, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand. |
| 2006 |
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‘Modernism in St. Ives’, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England. |
Public commissions
| 1947 |
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Town Planning Committee, London County Council, 4 maquettes for Waterloo Bridge, London, England. |
| 1948-66 |
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London County Council, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions, England. |
| 1949 |
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'Vertical Forms’, Hertfordshire County Education Committee, England. |
| 1949-51 |
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Festival of Britain: ‘Contrapuntal Forms', 'Turning Forms’, Festival Disposals, Harlow New Town, Essex, England. St Julian’s (now Marlborough) School, St Albans, Herts, England. |
| 1954 |
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'Monolith (Empyrean)’, London County Council, South Bank, outside the Royal Festival Hall, London, England. |
| 1956 |
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'Orpheus: Theme on Electronics’, Mullard Electronics, London, England. |
| 1958 |
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‘Meridian’, State House, London, England. |
| 1961-64 |
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'Single Form’, in memory of Dag Hammarskjold United Nations, New York, USA. |
| 1962 |
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‘Winged Figure’, John Lewis Partnership, Oxford Street, London, England. |
| 1962 |
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‘Curved Reclining Form, Rosewall’, The Ministry of Works, Chetwynd House, Chesterfield, England. |
| 1969-72 |
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‘Theme and Variations’, Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society, Cheltenham, England. |
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