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/Biography of Dame Barbara Hepworth:
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.
1924 to John Skeaping.
1933 to Ben Nicholson. (Divorced 1951).
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.
Places of Interest:
CORNWALL:
Barbara Hepworth Studio, Trewyn, St. Ives.
Tate Gallery, St. Ives
LONDON:
Tate Britain
Kenwood House
SHROPSHIRE:
Dudmaston Hall, Shropshire
YORKSHIRE:
Ory Gallery, Leeds
SCOTLAND:
Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
