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Dame Barbara Hepworth
(b. Wakefield, 10 Jan 1903; d. St Ives, 20 May 1975).
| 1903 |
January 10th, Barbara Hepworth born in Wakefield,
Yorkshire |
| 1920 |
Wins scholarship to Leeds School of Art |
| 1921 |
Awarded a county major scholarship and begins
studies in sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London |
| 1924 |
Awarded RCA diploma and wins a scholarship for
travel to Italy |
| 1925 |
Marries sculptor John Skeaping (divorce in 1931)
in Florence and begins work in Rome |
| 1930 |
Returns to England and begins carving iron-stones
from the Norfolk beaches |
| 1931 |
Joins the Seven and Five Society and exhibits
until its demise in 1936 |
| 1933 |
Visits Paris with Ben Nicholson and meets Georges
Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brancusi |
| 1935 |
Meets Naum Gabo and Piet Mondrian in Paris |
| 1938 |
Marries Ben Nicholson (ends in 1951) |
| 1939 |
Moves to St. Ives, Cornwall before WWII |
| 1949 |
Founds Penwith Society for Arts in Cornwall |
| 1951 |
Buys Trewyn Studio and moves there permanently |
| 1958 |
Receives CBE in New Year’s Honours List |
| 1964 |
Becomes a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London |
| 1966 |
Diagnosed with throat cancer, cared for by specialist
Stanley Lee, at Westminster Hospital |
| 1968 |
Awarded Honorary Degree from University of Oxford
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| 1975 |
May 20th, dies at home , St. Ives, Cornwall |
| 1975 |
Opening of Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives,
Cornwall |
exhibitions
| 1928 |
First solo public exhibition at the Beaux Art
Gallery, London |
| 1932 |
Joint exhibition with Ben Nicholson at Author
Tooth & Sons’ Gallery, London |
| 1943 |
First retrospective exhibition, held at Temple
Newsam, Leeds |
| 1946 |
First post war solo show at Alex. Reid &
Lefevre, London |
| 1951 |
Retrospective exhibition held at native town
of Wakefield, Yorkshire opened by Sir Herbert Read |
| 1954 |
Major retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London: Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective of Carvings
and Drawings from 1927–1954 |
| 1959 |
Exhibited at 5th Sao Paulo Biennal, Brazil |
| 1962 |
Major Retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London: Barbara Hepworth: An Exhibition of Sculpture
from 1952–1962 |
| 1963 |
Exhibited at 7th Biennale, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1964 |
The British Council European Tour: Barbara
Hepworth |
| 1966 |
Exhibited at Fifth International Sculpture Exhibition
at Songbook |
| 1968 |
Major retrospective at Tate Gallery, London:
Barbara Hepworth |
| 1971 |
Arts Council Tour: Barbara Hepworth Sculpture
and Lithographs 1970–71 |
| 1979 |
Marlborough Fine Art, London and Marlborough
Gallery, New York: Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes |
| 1981 |
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC: Barbara
Hepworth: From the Museum Collection, Hishhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden |
| 1987–8 |
New Art Centre, London: Barbara Hepworth:
Ten Sculptures 1951–73 |
| 1996 |
PaceWildenstein, New York: Barbara Hepworth:
Sculpture from the Estate |
| 2001–2 |
Robert Sandelson, London: Barbara Hepworth |
public commissions
| 1947 |
Town Planning Committee, London County Council,
4 maquettes for Waterloo Bridge |
| 1948–66 |
London County Council, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions |
| 1949 |
Hertfordshire County, Education Committee, ‘Vertical
Forms’ |
| 1949–51 |
Festival of Britain: ‘Contrapuntal Forms;’
‘Turning Forms’;
Festival Disposals, Harlow New Town, Essex: ‘Contrapuntal
Forms’;
Festival Disposals, St Julian’s (now Marlborough) School,
St Albans: ‘Turning Forms’ |
| 1954 |
London County Council, South Bank: ‘Monolith
(Empyrean)’ and is sited on the South Bank outside the Royal
Festival Hall |
| 1956 |
Mullard Electronics: ‘Orpheus: Theme on
Electronics’ |
| 1958 |
State House, London: ‘Meridian’ |
| 1961–64 |
United Nations, New York: ‘Single Form’
in memory of Dag Hammarskjold |
| 1962 |
John Lewis Partnership, Oxford Street, London:
‘Winged Figure’ |
| 1962 |
The Ministry of Works, Chetwynd House, Chesterfield:
‘Curved Reclining
Form, Rosewall’ |
| 1969–72 |
Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society,
Cheltenham: ‘Theme and
Variations’ |
selected bibliography
Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, introduction by Herbert
Read, Lund Humphries, London, 1952
Bowness, Alan, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor’s
Landscape, Cory, Adams & Mackay, London, 1966
Bowness, Sophie, Barbara Hepworth: Stone Sculpture, PaceWildenstein
Gallery, New York, 2001
Browse, Lillian (ed.), Introduction by William Gibson, Barbara
Hepworth: Sculptress, Faber & Faber, London, 1946
Curtis, Penelope, Barbara Hepworth, Tate Gallery Publications,
London, 1998
Festing, Sally, Barbara Hepworth A Life of Forms, Harmondsworth,
1995
Fraser Jenkins, David, Barbara Hepworth: A Guide to the Tate Gallery
Collection at London and St Ives, Tate Gallery Publications, 1982
Gale, Matthew and Stephens, Chris, Barbara Hepworth, Tate
Gallery Publishing, London, 1999
Hammacher, A. M., Barbara Hepworth, A. Zwemmer, London, 1958
Hodin, J.P., Barbara Hepworth: Life and Work, Lund Humphries,
London, 1961
Martin, J.L., Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo (eds.), Circle: International
Survey of Constructive Art, Faber & Faber, London, 1937
Read, Herbert (ed.), Unit One: The Modern Movement in English Architecture,
Painting and Sculpture, Cassell, London,1934
Shepherd, Michael, Barbara Hepworth, Methuen, London, 1963
Thistlewood, David, Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered, Liverpool,
1996
Wilkinson, Alan G., Barbara Hepworth: The Art Gallery of Ontario
Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1991
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