Editing Barbara Hepworth

{{short description|English artist and sculptor (1903–1975)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| honorific_prefix = 
| name             = Dame Barbara Hepworth
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|DBE|size=100%}}
| image            = Barbara Hepworth (1966) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg
| imagesize        =
| caption          = Hepworth in 1966
| birth_name       = Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1903|1|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Wakefield]], West Riding of Yorkshire, England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1975|5|20|1903|1|10}}
| death_place      = [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]], Cornwall, England
| field            = Sculpture
| training         = {{plainlist|
* [[Wakefield Girls' High School]]
* [[Leeds School of Art]]
* [[Royal College of Art]]
}}
| movement         = [[Modernism]], [[abstract art]]
| website          = {{URL|www.barbarahepworth.org.uk}}
| spouse           = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[John Skeaping]]|1925|1933|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Ben Nicholson]]|1938|1951|end=divorced}}
}}
| children         = 4, including [[Simon Nicholson]]
}}
'''Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth''' (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies [[Modernism]] and in particular modern sculpture.<ref name=gale/> Along with artists such as [[Ben Nicholson]] and [[Naum Gabo]], Hepworth was a leading figure in the [[St Ives School|colony of artists]] who resided in [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]] during the Second World War.

Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Hepworth studied at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in the 1920s. She married the sculptor [[John Skeaping]] in 1925. In 1931 she fell in love with the painter [[Ben Nicholson]], and in 1933 divorced Skeaping. At this time she was part of a circle of modern artists centred on Hampstead, London, and was one of the founders of the art movement [[Unit One]].

At the beginning of the Second World War Hepworth and Nicholson moved to St Ives, Cornwall, where she would remain for the rest of her life. Best known as a sculptor, Hepworth also produced drawings – including a series of sketches of operating rooms following the hospitalisation of her daughter in 1944 – and [[lithograph]]s. She died in a fire at her studio in 1975.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in [[Wakefield]], West Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth.<ref name="bio" /> Her father was a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 advanced to the role of [[county surveyor]].<ref name="bio" /> Hepworth attended [[Wakefield Girls' High School]], where she was awarded music prizes at the age of 12<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title='Rhythm of the Stones': Barbara Hepworth and Music|last=Bowness|first=Sophie|url=https://archive.org/details/barbarahepworth00chri/page/25|encyclopedia=Barbara Hepworth : centenary|editor-last=Stephens|editor-first=Chris|year=2003|publisher=Tate|location=London|page=25|isbn=978-1-85437-479-0}}</ref><ref name="hepworth1970">{{cite book |first1=Barbara |last1=Hepworth |title=Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography |publisher=Praeger Publishers |date=1970 |edition=1st |location=New York |lccn=73-99496}}</ref> and won a scholarship to study at the [[Leeds School of Art]] from 1920. It was there that she met her fellow Yorkshireman, [[Henry Moore]].<ref name="bio" /> They became friends and established a friendly rivalry that lasted professionally for many years.

Despite the difficulties of attempting to gain a position in what was a male-dominated environment,<ref>{{cite book |last=Festing |first=Sally |title=Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms |date=1995 |pages=xviii, 24}}</ref> Hepworth successfully won a county scholarship to attend the [[Royal College of Art]] (RCA) in London and studied there from 1921 until she was awarded the diploma of the Royal College of Art in 1924.<ref name="ccc" />

===Early career===
[[File:1932 Barbara Hepworth Pierced Form, Paul Laib, photographer, courtauld museum.jpg|thumb|right| Barbara Hepworth, ''Pierced Form,'' 1932 (pink alabaster, original destroyed {{circa|1944}})<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hepworth |first1=Barbara |title=Pierced Form (1932, destroyed ca. 1945)|url=http://barbarahepworth.org.uk/sculptures/1932/pierced-form/ |publisher=Barbara Hepworth Estate |date=1932}}</ref>]]
Following her studies at the RCA, Hepworth travelled to [[Florence]], Italy, in 1924 on a [[West Riding]] Travel Scholarship.<ref name=gale/> Hepworth was also the runner-up for the [[Prix-de-Rome]], which the sculptor [[John Skeaping]] won.<ref name=gale/> After travelling with him to Siena and Rome, Hepworth married Skeaping in May 1925 in Florence.<ref name=bio/> In Italy, Hepworth learned how to carve marble from sculptor Giovanni Ardini.<ref name=bio/> Hepworth and Skeaping returned to London in 1926, where they exhibited their works together from their flat.<ref name=bio/> Their son Paul was born in London in 1929.<ref name=gale/> In 1931, Hepworth met and fell in love with abstract painter [[Ben Nicholson]]; however, both were still married at the time.<ref>{{cite web| date=10 July 2015|title=The personal and professional life of Barbara Hepworth |url=https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-behind-artist-barbara-hepworth-work/|access-date=25 August 2020|website=The National Archives blog}}</ref> Hepworth filed for divorce from Skeaping that year;<ref>{{cite web|date=1931|title=Divorce Court File: 1565. Appellant: Jocelyn Barbara Skeaping. Respondent: John Rattenbury Skeaping...|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8064829|access-date=16 March 2022|website=The National Archives}}</ref> they were divorced in March 1933.<ref name=bio/>

Her early work was highly interested in abstraction and art movements on the continent. In 1931, Hepworth was the first to sculpt the pierced figures that are characteristic of both her own work and, later, that of Henry Moore.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Winterson |first1=Jeanette |title=The hole of life |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dame-barbara-hepworth-1274/hole-life|journal=Tate Magazine |issue=5|publisher=Tate Gallery |location=London}}</ref> They would lead in the path to modernism in sculpture. In 1933, Hepworth travelled with Nicholson to France, where they visited the studios of [[Jean Arp]], [[Pablo Picasso]], and [[Constantin Brâncuși]].<ref name=bio/> Hepworth later became involved with the Paris-based art movement, [[Abstraction-Création]].<ref name=eb/> In 1933, Hepworth co-founded the [[Unit One]] art movement with Nicholson and [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]], the critic [[Herbert Read]], and the architect [[Wells Coates]].<ref name=nash/> The movement sought to unite Surrealism and abstraction in British art.<ref name=nash/>

Hepworth also helped raise awareness of continental artists amongst the British public. In 1937, she designed the layout for ''[[Circle: An International Survey of Constructivist Art]]'', a 300-page book that surveyed Constructivist artists and that was published in London and edited by Nicholson, [[Naum Gabo]], and [[Leslie Martin]].<ref name=peggy/>

Hepworth, with Nicholson, gave birth to triplets in 1934: Rachel, Sarah, and [[Simon Nicholson|Simon]]. Hepworth, atypically, found a way to both take care of her children and continue producing her art. "A woman artist", she argued, "is not deprived by cooking and having children, nor by nursing children with measles (even in triplicate)&nbsp;– one is in fact nourished by this rich life, provided one always does some work each day; even a single half hour, so that the images grow in one's mind."<ref name="guardian"/> Hepworth married Nicholson on 17&nbsp;November 1938 at [[Hampstead]] Register Office in north London, following his divorce from his wife [[Winifred Nicholson|Winifred]].<ref name=alan/> Rachel and Simon also became artists.<ref name=riggs/>

===St Ives===
[[File:Barbara Hepworth monolyth empyrean.jpg|thumb|right|''Monolith-Empyrean'', 1953.]]
Hepworth, Nicholson and their children went to live in Cornwall at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.<ref name=tate/><ref name="Phaidon Editors">{{cite book |title=Great Women Artists |year=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-7877-5 |page=183}}</ref> She lived in Trewyn Studios in [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]] from 1949 until her death in 1975. Trewyn Studios had once been an outbuilding of Trewyn House, later purchased by her pupil and assistant [[John Milne (sculptor)|John Milne]] in 1956.<ref>{{cite web|title='Credo', John Milne, 1974|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/milne-credo-t15361|first=Andrew |last=Wilson|date=June 2019|access-date=11 January 2023|website=Tate}}</ref><ref name=tate/> She said that "Finding Trewyn Studio was sort of magic. Here was a studio, a yard, and garden where I could work in open air and space."<ref name=tate/> St Ives had become a refuge for many artists during the war. On 8 February 1949, Hepworth and Nicholson co-founded the [[Penwith Society of Arts]] at the Castle Inn; 19 artists were founding members, including [[Peter Lanyon]] and [[Bernard Leach]].
<ref name=penwith/>

Hepworth was also a skilled draughtsperson. After her daughter Sarah was hospitalised in 1944, she struck up a close friendship with the surgeon Norman Capener.<ref name="pallant2012">{{cite web|title=Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings 27th November 2012|url=http://pallant.org.uk/about1/press-office/press-releases/2012/barbara-hepworth-hospital-drawings|website=pallant.org.uk|publisher=Pallant House Gallery|access-date=11 February 2016|archive-date=15 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215233228/http://pallant.org.uk/about1/press-office/press-releases/2012/barbara-hepworth-hospital-drawings|url-status=dead}}</ref> At Capener's invitation, she was invited to view surgical procedures and, between 1947 and 1949, she produced nearly 80 drawings of operating rooms in chalk, ink, and pencil.<ref name="pallant2012"/><ref name="hepburn2013">{{cite book| publisher = Tate| isbn = 978-1-84976-165-9| last = Hepburn| first = Nathaniel| title = Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings| location = New York| year=2013}}</ref> Hepworth was fascinated by the similarities between surgeons and artists, stating: "There is, it seems to me, a close affinity between the work and approach of both physicians and surgeons, and painters and sculptors."<ref name="pallant2012"/>

In 1950, works by Hepworth were exhibited in the British Pavilion at the XXV [[Venice Biennale]]<ref name=bio/> alongside works by [[Matthew Smith (painter)|Matthew Smith]] and [[John Constable]].<ref name=british/> The 1950 Biennale was the last time that contemporary British artists were exhibited alongside artists from the past.<ref name=british/> Two early public commissions, ''[[Contrapunctal Forms (sculpture)|Contrapunctal Forms]]'' and ''[[Turning Forms]]'', were exhibited at the [[Festival of Britain]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://heni.com/talks/harlow-hepworth|author=Irena Posner|title=Harlow's Hidden Hepworth Sculpture|work=HENI Talks}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://hepworthwakefield.org/our-story/hepworth-research-network/events/revisiting-turning-forms/|title=Revisiting Turning Forms|work=The Hepworth Wakefield}}</ref> 

During this period, Hepworth and Nicholson divorced (1951).<ref name=riggs/> Hepworth moved away from working only in stone or wood and began to work with bronze and clay.<ref name=tate/> Hepworth often used her garden in St Ives, which she designed with her friend the composer [[Priaulx Rainier]], to view her large-scale bronzes.<ref name=tate/>

====Death of her son Paul====
[[File:Corinthos by Barbara Hepworth, Tate Liverpool.jpg|thumb|right|''Corinthos'' (sculpted in [[guarea]] wood), 1954–55, at [[Tate Liverpool]].<ref name="Corinthos">{{cite web| url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hepworth-corinthos-t00531/text-catalogue-entry | title=Corinthos 1954–55 | publisher=[[Tate Gallery]] | location=UK | access-date=5 August 2015 }}</ref>]]
Her eldest son Paul was killed on 13 February 1953 in a plane crash while serving with the [[Royal Air Force]] in Thailand.<ref name=stephens/> A memorial to him, ''Madonna and Child'', is in the [[St Ia's Church, St Ives|parish church of St Ives]].<ref name=bio1/>

Exhausted, in part from her son's death, Hepworth travelled to Greece with her friend [[Margaret Gardiner (art collector)|Margaret Gardiner]] in August 1954.<ref name=stephens/> They visited [[Athens]], [[Delphi]] and many of the [[Aegean Islands]].<ref name=stephens/>

When Hepworth returned to St Ives from Greece in August 1954 she found that Gardiner had sent her a large shipment of Nigerian [[guarea]] hardwood.<ref name = stephens/> Although she received only a single tree trunk, Hepworth noted that the shipment from Nigeria to the Tilbury docks came in at 17 tons.<ref name = stephens/> Between 1954 and 1956 Hepworth sculpted six pieces out of guarea wood, many of which were inspired by her trip to Greece, such as ''Corinthos'' (1954) and ''Curved Form (Delphi)'' (1955).<ref name = stephens/>

===Ambivalent burden of international reputation===
It was also during this decade that Hepworth became preoccupied with the idea of establishing a market base for her work in the United States. Initially she hoped to follow Henry Moore's successful sale of artwork via [[Curt Valentin]] of Bucholz Gallery in New York. Negotiations with Valentin did result in a number of American sales, but despite the sales, and despite interventions by Hepworth's friends, Valentin rebuffed repeated requests to hold any substantial stock of her work. It was not until 1955, after the [[Martha Jackson Gallery]] had offered Hepworth the opportunity to exhibit in their space alongside works by [[William Scott (artist)|William Scott]] and [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]], that Hepworth formalised gallery representation in the new world.<ref name="Tate Gallery">{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Emma |title=Representation and Reputation: Barbara Hepworth's Relationships with her American and British Dealers |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/20/representation-and-reputation-barbara-hepworths-relationships-with-her-american-and-british-dealers|journal=Tate Papers 20, Autumn 2013|publisher=Tate Gallery |location=London |issn= 1753-9854 |date=2013}}</ref>

[[File:Barbara Hepworth Single Form Battersea.JPG|thumb|right|''[[Single Form|Single Form (Memorial)]]'' at [[Battersea Park]], London.]]
Hepworth's difficulties in establishing a stable gallery relationship in the United States have been attributed to many factors, including the artist's own diffidence regarding personal promotion of her work. When Martha Jackson failed to arrange the solo American exhibition of sculptures and drawings that Hepworth demanded, Hepworth moved, in 1957, to [[Galerie Chalette]], run by Arthur and Madeleine Lejwa, known for their close relationship with [[Jean Arp]], and dedication to close relationships with their artists.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://artdaily.cc/news/108881/Christie-s-announces-selections-from-the-Israel-Museum-to-benefit-the-acquisitions-fund | title=Christie's announces selections from the Israel Museum to benefit the acquisitions fund | publisher=Art Daily | date=2018 | access-date=21 March 2020 }}</ref>

The Lejwas came through with the solo exhibition Hepworth craved.<ref name="Tate Gallery"/> Hepworth came to New York for the opening (her first visit to the city),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bowness |first1=Sophie |title=Barbara Hepworth Chronology |url=https://barbarahepworth.org.uk/biography/ |publisher=Hepworth Estate}}</ref> but made minimal contact with the press and left as soon as possible. "Have seen all the press", she wrote, "pulled faces at the camera and generally done my best!"<ref name="Tate Gallery"/>

Three years later, having secured the [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] Memorial Commission (''Single Form,'' 1964), she left both Chalette and [[Gimpel Fils]], her long-time home agent, for the larger Marlborough Fine Art and Marlborough-Gerson. "Pulled between personal loyalties and professional aspirations", Hepworth chose to forfeit the personal relationships.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Correia |first1=Alice |title=Barbara Hepworth and Gimpel Fils: The Rise and Fall of an Artist-Dealer Relationship|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/22/barbara-hepworth-and-gimpel-fils-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-artist-dealer-relationship|journal=Tate Papers 22|publisher=Tate Gallery |location=London |issn= 1753-9854 |date=2014}}</ref>

===Late career===
Hepworth greatly increased her studio space in 1960 when she purchased the [[Palais de Danse, St Ives|Palais de Danse]], a former cinema and dance hall, that was situated across the street from Trewyn. She used this new space to work on large-scale commissions.<ref name=sophie/>

She also experimented with [[lithography]] in her late career, and produced two lithographic suites with the Curwen Gallery and its director Stanley Jones, one in 1969 and one in 1971.<ref name=behrman/> The latter was entitled "The Aegean Suite" (1971) and was inspired by Hepworth's trip to Greece in 1954 with [[Margaret Gardiner (art collector)|Margaret Gardiner]].<ref name="hepworthwakefield">{{cite web|title=Barbara Hepworth: Graphic works 26 April 2013 – 7 February 2014|url=http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/whatson/barbara-hepworth-graphic-works|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508054016/http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/whatson/barbara-hepworth-graphic-works/|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 May 2013|website=hepworthwakefield.org|publisher=The Hepworth Wakefield|access-date=11 February 2016}}</ref> The artist also produced a set of lithographs entitled "Opposing Forms" (1970) with [[Marlborough Fine Art]] in London.<ref name="hepworthwakefield"/>

Barbara Hepworth died in an accidental fire at her Trewyn studios on 20 May 1975 at the age of 72.<ref name="barbarahepworth.org">{{cite web|last1=Bowness|first1=Sophie|title=Biography|url=http://barbarahepworth.org.uk/biography/|website=barbarahepworth.org.uk|publisher=Sophie Bowness|access-date=11 February 2016}}</ref>

==Famous sculptures==
[[File:41518942 Barbara H..jpg|thumb|right|''[[Two Forms (Divided Circle)]]'', 1969, St Ives.]]
In 1951 Hepworth was commissioned by the Arts Council to create a piece for the [[Festival of Britain]].<ref name=bio9/> The resulting work featured two Irish limestone figures entitled, "Contrapuntal Forms" (1950), which was displayed on London's South Bank;<ref name=bio9/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://heni.com/talks/harlow-hepworth|author=Irena Posner|title=Harlow's Hidden Hepworth Sculpture|work=HENI Talks}}</ref>  it was later donated to the New Town of Harlow and displayed in Glebelands, where it remains. To complete the large-scale piece Hepworth hired her first assistants, [[Terry Frost]], [[Denis Mitchell (sculptor)|Denis Mitchell]], and [[John Wells (artist)|John Wells]].<ref name=bio9/>

From 1949 onwards she worked with assistants, 16 in all.<ref>{{cite book|last=Festing|first=Sally|title=Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms|year=1995|pages=xx, 185–86, 197, 214, 219–20}}</ref> One of her most prestigious works is ''[[Single Form]]'',<ref name=bio2/> which was made in memory of her friend and collector of her works, the former Secretary General [[Dag Hammarskjöld]], and which stands in the plaza of the United Nations building in New York City.<ref name=guardian/> It was commissioned by [[Jacob Blaustein]], a former United States delegate to the U.N., in 1961 following Hammarskjöld's death in a plane crash.<ref name=un/>

On 20 December 2011, her 1969 sculpture ''[[Two Forms (Divided Circle)]]'' was stolen from its plinth in [[Dulwich Park]], [[South London]]. Suspicions are that the theft was by [[scrap metal]] thieves. The piece, which had been in the park since 1970, was insured for £500,000, a spokesman for [[Southwark Council]] said.<ref name="bbc1"/>

One of the editions of six of her 1964 bronze sculpture, ''Rock Form (Porthcurno)'', was removed from the [[Mander Centre]] in [[Wolverhampton]] in the spring of 2014 by its owners, the [[Royal Bank of Scotland]] and Dalancey Estates. Its sudden disappearance led to questions in Parliament in September 2014. [[Paul Uppal]], Member of Parliament for [[Wolverhampton South West (UK Parliament constituency)|Wolverhampton South West]] said: "When the ''Rock Form'' was donated by the [[Mander family]], it was done so in the belief it would be enjoyed and cherished by the people of Wolverhampton for generations... It belongs to, and should be enjoyed by, the City of Wolverhampton." The sculpture has since been loaned to the city by RBS and can be seen in Wolverhampton City Art Gallery.

==Recognition==
[[File:Figure-hepworth.JPG|thumb|right|''[[Figure for Landscape]]'', 1960, [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden|Hirshhorn Museum]], Washington, D.C.]]
Hepworth was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1959 [[São Paulo Art Biennial]].<ref name=gale/> She was awarded the Freedom of St Ives in 1968 as an acknowledgment of her significant contributions to the town;<ref name=gale/> she was a member of the St Ives Trust (which sought to protect the town's character and architectural heritage), a founder member of the 'Art in Schools' programme run by [[Cornwall County Council]], and had gifted several sculptures to the town.<ref name=CS>{{cite book |first1=Chris |last1=Stephens |first2=Miranda |last2=Phillips |first3=Jodi |last3=Dickinson |title=Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden |date=2002 |publisher=[[Tate]] |isbn=978-1-84976-794-1}}</ref>{{rp|95}} The same year, she was inducted into [[Gorsedh Kernow]] with the [[bardic name]] {{lang|kw|Gravyor}} (meaning "Sculptor")<ref>{{cite web |title=Gorsedh Procession through St Just |url=https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-gorsedh-procession-through-st-just-1968-online |website=BFI Player |access-date=21 March 2023}}</ref> – this was described as an "extraordinary honour" given that she was not a Cornish native.<ref name=CS />{{rp|18}} She was awarded honorary degrees from the universities of [[University of Birmingham|Birmingham]] (1960), [[University of Leeds|Leeds]] (1961), [[University of Exeter|Exeter]] (1966), [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] (1968), [[University of London|London]] (1970) and [[University of Manchester|Manchester]] (1971).<ref name=alan/>

She was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1958 and [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] in 1965.<ref name=alan/><ref name=gazette/> In 1973 she was elected an honorary member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]].<ref name=aaal/> Following her death, her studio and home in St Ives became the [[Barbara Hepworth Museum]], which came under control of the [[Tate]] in 1980.<ref name=gale/>

In 2011 [[The Hepworth Wakefield]] opened in Hepworth's hometown of [[Wakefield]], England. The Museum was designed by the architect [[David Chipperfield]].<ref name="hepworthwakefield_about">{{cite web|title=Our gallery|url=http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/about/history/|website=hepworthwakefield.org|publisher=The Hepworth Wakefield|access-date=11 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128015621/http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/about/history/|archive-date=28 January 2016}}</ref>

In January 2015 [[Tate Britain]] staged a major retrospective with over 70 of Hepworth's works. The first large London show since 1968, it included her well-known major abstract carvings and bronzes, as well as previously unseen photographs and a 1930s self-[[photogram]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/19/tate-britain-barbara-hepworth-exhibition-sculptor-london|title=Tate Britain brings Barbara Hepworth out of the shadows and back in focus|last=Brown|first=Mark|date=19 January 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=23 January 2015}}</ref>

On 25 August 2020, Google honoured Hepworth with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/barbara-heporth-google-doodle-abstract-sculptor-artish-british-a9686486.html|title=Barbara Hepworth: Google Doodle celebrates influential English abstract sculptor|last=Michallon|first=Clémence|date=24 August 2020|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=25 August 2020}}</ref> A [[Historic England]] [[blue plaque]] was unveiled in honour of Hepworth and first husband [[John Skeaping]] at 24 St Ann's Terrace, [[St John's Wood]], London on 30 October 2020. The couple lived there in 1927.<ref>{{cite web|date=30 October 2020|title=Barbara Hepworth's time in London marked with blue plaque|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/30/barbara-hepworths-time-in-london-marked-with-blue-plaque|access-date=30 October 2020|website=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dame Barbara Hepworth and John Skeaping {{!}} Sculptors {{!}} Blue Plaques|url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/hepworth-and-skeaping/|access-date=30 October 2020|website=English Heritage}}</ref>

Hepworth's work was included in the 2021 exhibition ''[[Women in Abstraction]]'' at the [[Centre Pompidou]].<ref name="Women in abstraction">{{cite book |title=Women in abstraction |date=2021 |publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc |location=London : New York, New York |isbn=978-0500094372 |pages=170}}</ref>

The first major survey of Hepworth's work, ''Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium'' was held at [[Heide Museum of Modern Art]] in [[Melbourne]] from 5 November 2022 to 13 March 2023.<ref name="Heide Museum of Modern Art">{{cite web |title=Barbara Hepworth – Heide |url=https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/barbara-hepworth-equilibrium/ |website=Heide Museum of Modern Art |access-date=22 June 2024 }}</ref> Her work had a wide influence on Australian sculpture.<ref>{{cite web | last=Jinman | first=Richard | title=Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art preview | website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] | date=27 October 2022 | url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/condemned-as-a-mother-belittled-as-an-artist-barbara-hepworth-deserved-better-20221021-p5brv0.html | access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery class="center" widths="175" heights="150">
File:Barbara Hepworth Winged Figure 1963.jpg|''[[Winged Figure]]'', 1963, on the side of the [[John Lewis (department store)|John Lewis department store]], [[Holles Street]] and Oxford Street, London.
File:Kroller muller museum.JPG|''[[Sphere with Inner Form]]'', 1963, at the [[Kröller-Müller Museum]], [[Otterlo]], the [[Netherlands]].
File:Statz Statue.jpg|''Achaean'', c. 1963, at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]].
File:DSCN1791DualFormStIves.jpg|''[[Dual Form (Hepworth)|Dual Form]]'' at [[St Ives Guildhall]].
File:Rock Form Hepworth 1964 no c.JPG|''Rock Form (Porthcurno)'', 1964, Franklin Parkway, [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania.
File:Construction Crucifixion Homage to Mondrian.jpg|''Construction (Crucifixion): Homage to [[Piet Mondrian|Mondrian]]'', 1966, outside [[Winchester Cathedral]].
File:Three Obliques (Walk In) (Cardiff), May 2021 11.jpg|''[[Three Obliques (Walk In)]]'', 1968, at [[Cardiff University School of Music]]
File:Churchill College, Hepworth.jpg|''[[Four-Square (Walk Through)]]'', 1966, [[Churchill College, Cambridge]].
File:Curved Reclining Form (Rosewall), 1960–2, by Barbara Hepworth, in Chesterfield.jpg|''Curved Reclining Form (Rosewall)'', 1960–62, [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]], Derbyshire
File:Barbara Hepworth, Summer Dance, 1972, Bronze.jpg|alt=|''Summer Dance,'' 1972, at the Harrison Sculpture Garden, [[Minnesota Landscape Arboretum]]
</gallery>

==List of selected works==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year(s)
! Title
! Material
! Notes
|-
| width="55px" | 1927 || style="width:260px;" |''Doves''||[[Parian marble]]
|<ref name="Cohen-2020">{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-barbara-hepworth-modern-master-sculpture|title=How Barbara Hepworth Became a Modern Master of Sculpture|last=Cohen|first=Alina|date=9 January 2020|website=Artsy|access-date=12 January 2020}}</ref>
|-
| 1932–33 ||''Seated Figure''||[[lignum vitae]]
|
|-
| 1933 ||''Two Forms''||[[alabaster]] and [[limestone]]
|
|-
| 1934 ||''Mother and Child''||[[Cumberland]] [[alabaster]]
|<ref name="Cohen-2020" />
|-
| 1935 ||''[[Three Forms]]''||[[Seravezza]] [[marble]]
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|-
| 1936 ||''Ball Plane and Hole''|| lignum vitae, [[mahogany]] and oak
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| 1937 ||''Pierced Hemisphere 1''|| white marble
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| 1940 ||''Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red)''|| mixed
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| 1943 ||''Oval Sculpture''|| cast material
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| 1943–44 ||''Wave''|| wood, paint and string
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| 1944 ||''Landscape Sculpture''|| wood (cast in [[bronze]], 1961)
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| rowspan="2" | 1946 ||''Pelagos''|| wood, paint and string
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                  |''Tides''|| wood and paint
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| 1947 ||''Blue and green (arthroplasty) 31 December 1947''|| oil and pencil on pressed [[paperboard]]
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| 1948 ||''Surgeon Waiting''|| oil and pencil on pressed [[paperboard]]
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| 1949 ||''Operation: Case for Discussion''|| oil and pencil on pressed [[paperboard]]
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| 1951 ||''Group I (Concourse) 4 February 1951''|| Serravezza marble
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| 1953 || ''Hieroglyph''||[[Ancaster stone]]
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| 1953 ||''Monolith-Empyrean''||[[Ancaster stone]]
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| 1954–55 ||''Two Figures''||[[teak]] and paint
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| 1955 ||''Oval Sculpture (Delos)''|| scented [[guarea]] wood and paint
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| 1955–56 ||''Coré''|| bronze
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| 1956 || ''Curved Form (Trevalgan)''|| bronze (see external link to collection of Margaret Gardiner)
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| rowspan="2" | 1956 ||''Orpheus (Maquette), Version II''|| brass and cotton string
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                  |''Stringed Figure (Curlew), Version II''|| brass and cotton string
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|- valign="top"
| rowspan="2" | 1958 ||''Cantate Domino''|| bronze
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                  |''Sea Form ([[Porthmeor]])''|| bronze
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| 1959 ||''Curved form with inner form&nbsp;– anima''|| bronze
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|- valign="top"
| rowspan="3" | 1960 ||''[[Figure for Landscape]]''|| bronze
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                  | ''Archaeon''|| bronze
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                  |''[[Meridian (Hepworth)|Meridian]]''|| bronze
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| 1960–62 ||''Curved Reclining Form (Rosewall)''|| [[Nabresina]] limestone
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| 1961 ||''[[Curved Form (Bryher)]]''|| bronze
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| 1962–63 ||''Bronze Form ([[Patmos]])''|| bronze
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| 1963 ||''[[Winged Figure]]''|| bronze
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| 1963–65 ||''[[Sphere with Inner Form]]''|| bronze
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| rowspan="4" | 1964 ||''Rock Form ([[Porthcurno]])''|| bronze
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                  | ''Sea Form (Atlantic)''|| bronze
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                  | ''Oval Form (Trezion)''|| bronze
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                  |''[[Single Form]]''|| bronze
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|- valign="top"
| rowspan="2" | 1966 ||''Figure in a Landscape''|| bronze on wooden base
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                  |''[[Four-Square (Walk Through)]]''|| bronze
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| 1967 ||''Two Forms (Orkney)''|| slate
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| 1968 ||''[[Two Figures]]''|| bronze and gold
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| 1969 ||''[[Two Forms (Divided Circle)]]''|| bronze
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| 1970 ||''[[The Family of Man (Hepworth)|The Family of Man]]''|| bronze
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|- valign="top"
| rowspan="2" | 1971 ||''The Aegean Suite''|| series of prints
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                  |''Summer Dance''|| painted bronze
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|- valign="top"
| rowspan="2" | 1972 ||''Minoan Head''|| marble on wooden base
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                  |''Assembly of Sea Forms''|| white marble<br />mounted on stainless steel base
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| 1973 ||''Conversation with Magic Stones''|| bronze and silver
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Marble portrait heads dating from London, ca. 1927, of Barbara Hepworth by [[John Skeaping]], and of Skeaping by Hepworth, are documented by photograph in the Skeaping Retrospective catalogue,<ref name=skeaping/> but are both believed to be lost.

==Galleries and locations exhibiting her work==
Two museums are named after Hepworth and have significant collections of her work: the [[Barbara Hepworth Museum]] in [[St Ives, Cornwall]], and [[The Hepworth Wakefield]] in West Yorkshire.<ref name=wakefield/><ref name=bbc2/> Her work also may be seen at:
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* [[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery]], Birmingham <ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sun-and-moon-274963|title=Sun and Moon|website=artuk.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-cosdon-head-274982|title=The Cosdon Head {{pipe}} Art UK|website=artuk.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/BirminghamMuseumandArtGallery/posts/10157150998897975 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/34806457974/10157150998897975 |archive-date=26 February 2022 |url-access=limited|title=Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (UK)|website=www.facebook.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* Glebelands, [[Harlow]], Essex (namely Contrapuntal Forms)
* The [[University of Liverpool]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Campus art – Museums and Collections – University of Liverpool |url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/museums-and-collections/campus-art/ |access-date=25 September 2022 |website=www.liverpool.ac.uk}}</ref>
* The [[University of Birmingham]],<ref name="birmingham" />
* The [[University of Exeter]], [[Streatham Campus]]
* The [[University of Southampton]], [[Highfield, Southampton|Highfield Campus]]
* [[Keele University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/square-forms-269078|title=Square Forms {{pipe}} Art UK|website=artuk.org}}</ref>
* [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]],<ref name=bio3/>
* ''[[Three Obliques (Walk In)]]'' at [[Cardiff University School of Music]],<ref name=bio4/><ref name='Sothebys06'>{{cite web|title=Dame Barbara Hepworth THREE OBLIQUES (WALK-IN)|url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2006/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n08195/lot.50.html|publisher=[[Sotheby's]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525194706/https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2006/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n08195/lot.50.html|access-date=25 May 2021|archive-date=25 May 2021}}</ref>
* [[Yorkshire Sculpture Park]] in [[West Bretton]], West Yorkshire
* [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]], Derbyshire, behind the [[Royal Mail]] building (1 Future Walk, West Bars)
* [[Clare College, Cambridge]],<ref name=bio5/>
* [[Churchill College, Cambridge]]<ref name=bio6/>
* [[Murray Edwards College, Cambridge]]<ref name=murray/>
* [[Snape Maltings]], Snape, Suffolk
* On the facade of the [[John Lewis (department store)|John Lewis department store]], [[Oxford Street]], London<ref name=bio7/>
* [[Mander Brothers|The Mander Centre]], [[Wolverhampton]] (removed 2014)
* [[Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art]] Sculpture Garden at [[Northwestern University]]
* [[Kenwood House]], London
* Outside the [[Norwich Playhouse]]<ref name=racns/>
* In the grounds of [[Winchester Cathedral]] next to [[The Pilgrims' School]]<ref name=bio8/>
* [[Leeds Art Gallery]]<ref name=leeds/>
* [[Tate Gallery]], London<ref name="gale"/>
* [[Kröller-Müller Museum]], [[Otterlo]], Netherlands
* The [[Pier Arts Centre]], [[Stromness]], Orkney<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pierartscentre.com/collection|title=Collection|website=Pier Arts Centre}}</ref>
* [[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]] in Wellington, New Zealand
* [[Lynden Sculpture Garden]], Milwaukee, Wisconsin<ref>{{cite web|title=Collection|url=https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/collection?page=2|access-date=11 January 2023|website=www.lyndensculpturegarden.org}}</ref>
* Harrison Sculpture Garden at the [[Minnesota Landscape Arboretum]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Epiduaros II|url=https://www.arboretum.umn.edu/EpidorousII.aspx|website=www.arboretum.umn.edu|access-date=12 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum branches out with art garden|url=https://www.startribune.com/u-of-m-landscape-arboretum-branches-out-with-art-garden/217691151/|website=Star Tribune|date=31 July 2013 |access-date=12 May 2020}}</ref>
* The facade of Cheltenham House, Cheltenham
* [[Kimbell Art Museum]], Fort Worth, Texas
* [[Art Institute of Chicago]], Chicago, Illinois
* [[Dallas Museum of Art]], Dallas, Texas
* [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]], Washington, DC
* [[Kettle's Yard]], Cambridge<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/collection-artist/barbara-hepworth/|title=Barbara Hepworth – Collection Database |website=www.kettlesyard.co.uk|access-date=25 August 2020}}</ref>
* [[Art Gallery of South Australia]], Adelaide, Australia<ref>{{cite web |title=Head (Ra) |url=https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/head-ra/26408/ |website=AGSA – Online Collection |access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref>
* [https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/about/history/exhibitions-1901-2020/ Whitechapel Gallery], London, England (8 April – 6 June 1954)
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==References==
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<ref name=aaal>[http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php#h Deceased Members: Deceased Foreign Honorary Members] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726004624/http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |date=26 July 2011 }}. American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 31 January 2014.</ref>

<ref name=alan>{{cite web|first=Alan |last=Bowness|title= Life and work|url=https://barbarahepworth.org.uk/about-barbara-hepworth/alan-bowness-life-and-work.html|access-date=11 January 2023|website=barbarahepworth.org.uk}}</ref>

<ref name=behrman>Behrman, Pryle. [http://www.curwengallery.co.uk/gallery/curwen50th/cv.htm "Fifty Years at the heart of British Printmaking"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219065746/http://www.curwengallery.co.uk/gallery/curwen50th/cv.htm |date=19 February 2014 }} Retrieved 31 January 2014.</ref>

<ref name=bio>{{cite web|title=Biography|url=https://barbarahepworth.org.uk/biography/|access-date=11 January 2023|website=barbarahepworth.org.uk}}</ref>

<ref name=bio1>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/sculptures/1954/madonna-and-child/ |title=Selected sculptures: ''Madonna and Child'' |publisher= Hepworth Estate |access-date=31 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bio2>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/commissions/list/single-form.html |title=Commissions: ''Single Form'' |publisher= Hepworth Estate |access-date= 29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bbc1>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16266378 |title=Barbara Hepworth sculpture stolen from Dulwich park |work= BBC News  |date=20 December 2011 |access-date= 29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bbc2>{{cite news|title=New Barbara Hepworth gallery opens in Wakefield |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-13483212|work=BBC News |date=21 May 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110521112459/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-13483212| archive-date= 21 May 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>

<ref name=bio3>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/sculptures/1959/figure-archaean/ |title= Selected sculptures: ''Figure (Archaean)'' |publisher= Hepworth Estate |access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bio4>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/sculptures/1968/three-obliques-walkin/ |title= Selected sculptures: ''Three Obliques (Walk-In)'' |publisher= Hepworth Estate |access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bio5>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/sculptures/1969/two-forms-divided-circle/ |title= Selected sculptures: ''Two Forms (Divided Circle)'' |publisher= Hepworth Estate |access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bio6>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/sculptures/1966/foursquare-walk-through/ |title= Selected sculptures: ''Four-Square (Walk Through)'' |publisher= Hepworth Estate |access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bio7>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/commissions/list/winged-figure.html |title= Commissions: ''Winged Figure'' |publisher= Hepworth Estate |access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bio8>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/sculptures/1966/construction-crucifixion/ |title= Selected sculptures: ''Construction (Crucifixion)'' |publisher= Hepworth Estate |access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=bio9>{{cite web|title=Contrapuntal Forms|url=https://barbarahepworth.org.uk/commissions/list/contrapuntal-forms.html|access-date=11 January 2023|website=barbarahepworth.org.uk}}</ref>

<ref name=british>{{cite web|url=http://venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/timeline/1950|title=Timeline: 1950 Group show|publisher=British Council|work=British Pavilion in Venice|access-date=25 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208103724/http://venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/timeline/1950|archive-date=8 February 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=ccc>{{cite web|url=http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=29038|archive-url=https://archive.today/20071025033707/http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=29038|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 October 2007|title=Barbara Hepworth|year=2007|publisher=Cornwall County Council |access-date=1 February 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=eb>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2001/Abstraction-Creation "Abstraction-Création"]. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 31 January 2014.</ref>

<ref name="gale">{{cite web|first=Matthew |last=Gale|title=Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dame-barbara-hepworth-1274|date=April 1997|access-date=11 January 2023|website=Tate}}</ref>

<ref name=gazette>{{London Gazette |issue=43667 |date= 4 June 1965|page=5480 |supp=y}}</ref>

<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|date=17 May 2003|title=Touchy feely|last=MacCarthy|first=Fiona|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2003/may/17/art.artsfeatures|access-date=11 January 2023|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

<ref name=leeds>{{cite web|url=http://www.leedsartgallery.co.uk/ |title=Leeds Art Gallery Online |access-date= 29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=murray>{{cite web|url=http://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/applying/subjects/historyofart |title=History of Art |publisher=Murray Edwards College, Cambridge |access-date=29 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914205931/http://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/applying/subjects/historyofart |archive-date=14 September 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name=nash>[http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/paul-nash/paul-nash-modern-artist-ancient-landscape-room-guide-3 Paul Nash: Modern artist, ancient landscape: Room guide: Unit One: 'A Contemporary Spirit']. Tate Liverpool. Retrieved 31 January 2014.</ref>

<ref name=peggy>[http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=232 Barbara Hepworth: ''Single Form'' 1961]. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Retrieved 31 January 2014.</ref>

<ref name=penwith>{{cite web|title=Penwith Society|url=https://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/penwith-society|access-date=11 January 2023|website=cornwallartists.org}}</ref>

<ref name=racns>{{cite web|url=http://www.racns.co.uk/trails/Norwich2Trail.pdf |title =Norwich Sculpture Trails: 2 Around the Cathedral and the Castle|publisher=Recording Archive for Public Sculpture in Norfolk and Suffolk}} Retrieved 29 January 2014.</ref>

<ref name=riggs>{{cite web|last=Riggs |first=Terry|title=Ben Nicholson OM 1894–1982|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ben-nicholson-om-1702|access-date=11 January 2023|website=Tate}}</ref>

<ref name=skeaping>''John Skeaping 1901–80: A Retrospective'' (exhibition catalogue). London: Arthur Ackermann and Son, 1991, p.&nbsp;7</ref>

<ref name=sophie>{{cite web|title=St Ives|last=Bowness|first= Sophie|url=https://barbarahepworth.org.uk/st-ives/|access-date=11 January 2023|website=barbarahepworth.org.uk}}</ref>

<ref name=stephens>{{cite web|last=Stephens, Chris|title='Corinthos', Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1954–5|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hepworth-corinthos-t00531|date=March 1998|access-date=11 January 2023|website=Tate}}</ref>

<ref name=tate>{{cite web|title=Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden|access-date=11 January 2023|website=Tate}}</ref>

<ref name=un>[https://www.un.org/wcm/webdav/site/visitors/shared/documents/pdfs/FS_UN%20Headquarters_History_2012.pdf Fact Sheet: History of United Nations Headquarters] Retrieved 31 January 2014.</ref>

<ref name=wakefield>{{cite web|url=http://www.hepworthwakefield.com/ |title=Yorkshire's major new art gallery, opening 21 May 2011 |publisher= Hepworth Wakefield | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110310094032/http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/ |archive-date=10 March 2011 |access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=birmingham>{{cite web|title=Facilities – Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/historyofart/facilities/index.aspx|access-date=11 January 2023|website=University of Birmingham}}</ref>

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==Further reading==
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* [[Penelope Curtis]], ''Barbara Hepworth''. [[Tate Publishing Ltd|Tate Publishing]], {{ISBN|978-1-85437-225-3}}.
* Barbara Hepworth, ''Hepworth, Barbara: A Pictorial Autobiography''. Tate Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-85437-149-2}}.

=== Biographies ===
* {{cite book| edition = 1st| publisher = Viking| isbn = 978-0-670-84303-9| last = Festing| first = Sally| title = Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms| location = London; New York| year= 1995}}

=== Monographs ===
* {{cite book| publisher = Henval Press & Faber and Faber| last1 = Browse| first1 = Lilian| last2 = Gibson| first2 = William| title = Barbara Hepworth Sculptress| location = London| series = Ariel Books on the Arts| date = 1946 }}
* {{cite book| edition = 1st| publisher = Lund Humphries| last = Hepworth| first = Barbara| title = Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings| date = 1952}}
* {{cite book| publisher = Whitechappel Art Gallery| last = Hepworth| first = Barbara| title = Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings| date = 1954}}
* {{cite book| edition = 1st| publisher = Lund Humphries| last = Hodin| first = Jean&nbsp;P.| title = Barbara Hepworth| date = 1961}}
* {{cite book| edition = 1st| publisher = Methuen| last = Shepherd| first = Michael| title = Barbara Hepworth| series = Art in Progrees| date = 1963}}
* {{cite book| publisher = Praeger| last = Bowness| first = Alan| title = Barbara Hepworth: drawings from a sculptor's landscape| date = 1966}}
* {{cite book| publisher = Marlborough Fine Art| last = Hepworth| first = Barbara| title = Barbara Hepworth carvings, July–August 1982| date = 1982}}
* {{cite book| edition = 2| publisher = Thames and Hudson Ltd| isbn = 978-0-500-20218-0| last = Hammacher| first = A. M.| title = Barbara Hepworth| location = New York| series = World of Art| year =1987| url = https://archive.org/details/barbarahepworth00hamm}}
* {{cite book| publisher = Liverpool University Press| isbn = 978-0-85323-770-9| last = Thistlewood| first = David| title = Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered| location = Liverpool| year= 1996}}
* {{cite book| publisher = Tate| isbn = 978-1-85437-225-3| last = Curtis| first = Penelope| title = St. Ives Artists: Barbara Hepworth| series = St Ives Artists series| year=1998}}
* {{cite book| edition = New| publisher = Tate Publishing| isbn = 978-1-85437-347-2| last1 = Gale| first1 = Matthew| last2 = Stephens| first2 = Chris| title = Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives| date = 2001}}
* {{cite book| edition = First| publisher = Tate Publishing| isbn = 978-1-85437-412-7| last1 = Phillips| first1 = Miranda| last2 = Stephens| first2 = Chris| title = The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden| location = London; New York| year =  2002}}
* {{cite book| publisher = Yorkshire Sculpture Park| isbn = 978-1-871480-43-6| last = Bowness| first = Sophie| title = Barbara Hepworth and the Yorkshire Landscape: An Anthology of Her Writings and Recollections| year= 2003}}
* {{cite book| publisher = Tate Publishing| isbn = 978-1-84976-165-9| last = Hepburn| first = Nathaniel| title = Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings| location = New York |year=2012}}
* {{cite book| edition = New| publisher = Lund Humphries| isbn = 978-1-84822-085-0| last1 = Bowness| first1 = Sophie| last2 = Chipperfield| first2 = David| last3 = Guy| first3 = Frances| last4 = Heuman| first4 = Jackie| last5 = Jackson| first5 = Tessa| last6 = Wallis| first6 = Simon| last7 = Watson| first7 = Gordon| title = Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters| location = Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vermont : Wakefield, West Yorkshire| year = 2015}}
* {{cite book| edition = New| publisher = Lund Humphries| isbn = 978-1-84822-164-2| last = Wilkinson| first = Alan| title = The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth| location = Farnham Surrey, UK; Burlington, Vermont| year=2015}}

=== Exhibition catalogues ===
* {{cite book| publisher = Whitechapel Art Gallery| last = Hepworth| first = Barbara| title = Barbara Hepworth: Retrospective Exhibition 1927–1954| location = London| date = 1954}}
* {{cite book| publisher = Tate Gallery| last1 = Alley| first1 = Ronald| last2 = Reid| first2 = Norman| last3 = Oxenaar| first3 = R.W| last4 = Gray| first4 = Nicolette| title = Barbara Hepworth| date = 1968}}

==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://barbarahepworth.org.uk/}}
* {{Art UK bio}}
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1274 Barbara Hepworth in the Tate Collection]
* {{UK National Archives ID}}
* [http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb70-tga7247 Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture Records, 1925–1975]

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