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Who was Barbara Hepworth? Sculptor. Date and Place of Birth: 12th June 1903, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. Family Background: The daughter of a County Surveyor. Education: Wins a Scholarship to Leeds School of Art. Royal College of Art, London. Chronology: 1920: Meets Henry Moore at Leeds School of Art. 1921: Moves on to the Royal Academy of Art in London. 1924: After graduating she moves to Florence to study Romanesque and early Renaissance Sculpture with her new husband John Skeaping. Moves on from Florence to Rome. 1926: Returns to London. 1928: Holds her first one person exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London. Moves to Parkhill Road, Hempstead, London. 1932: Meets to artist Ben Nicholson and joined the "Seven and Five SOciety of Artists". Produces her first pierced form sculpture. 1933: Becomes a member of the Abstraction-Creation Association. and of the "British Unit One Group". 1934: Birth of triplets. 1935: By now all her work is abstract with the renewed influence of Nicholson now her husband. 1939: Began using colour in her work. 1940: Moved to St. Ives in Cornwall. 1949: Buys the Trewyn Studios in St. Ives. 1950: Exhibits at the Venice Biennnale. 1951: Divorce from Nicholson. She moves into the Trewyn Studios where she lives until her death. Exhibits "Contrapuntal Forms" at the Festival of Britain. 1953: Produces "The Unknown Political Prisoner". 1954: Visits Greece. 1959: Wins the Grand Prix at the Sao Paulo Biennale for one of her Bronze works, a medium she started to use in the late 1950's. 1962: Commissioned to do the Winged Figure on the John Lewis Building in London. 1964: Produces "Three Monoliths" in Marble. 1965: Created a Dame of the British Empire. 1973: Suffers from Throat cancer. Marriage: 1924 to John Skeaping. 1933 to Ben Nicholson. (Divorced 1951). Places of Interest: CORNWALL: Barbara Hepworth Studio, Trewyn, St. Ives. Tate Gallery, St. Ives. LONDON: Tate Britain Date and Place of Death: 20th May 1975, Trewyn Studio,St. Ives, Cornwall, England after a fire. Age at Death: 72. Site of Grave: Carbis Bay Cemetery, Cornwall, England.