Barbara Hepworth
English modernist sculptor and leading figure of the St Ives artists' colony
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Her work exemplifies Modernism and modern sculpture, and she was a leading figure in the St Ives artist colony during the Second World War.[1] The English sculptor Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth came into the world on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, which is located in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[1][2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth
- Born
- 10 January 1903
- Birthplace
- Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Died
- 20 May 1975
- Place of death
- St Ives, Cornwall, England
- Field
- Sculpture
- Training
- Wakefield Girls' High School
- Leeds School of Art
- Royal College of Art
- Movement
- Modernism, abstract art
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Hepworth was the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth, a civil engineer who became county surveyor in 1921.[2][3] She studied at Wakefield Girls' High School, won a scholarship to Leeds School of Art in 1920, and later attended the Royal College of Art from 1921 to 1924.[2][4] In 1924 she travelled to Italy on a West Riding Travel Scholarship, and in May 1925 she married sculptor John Skeaping in Florence.[5][6] She met Ben Nicholson in 1931, and they married on 17 November 1938 after his divorce.[5][7][8]
Hepworth gave birth to triplets in 1934 and argued that a woman artist is nourished by domestic life provided she does some work each day.[7][9] She moved to St Ives, Cornwall, at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and lived at Trewyn Studios from 1949 until her death.[10][11] Hepworth co-founded the Penwith Society of Arts in 1949 and was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1959 São Paulo Art Biennial.[12][13][6] A fire at her Trewyn studios on 20 May 1975, when she was 72, caused Hepworth's accidental death.[14]
What the cited sources add
The Tate biography by Gale records that Hepworth was runner-up to John Skeaping for the 1924 Prix de Rome.[6] The Guardian article by MacCarthy describes Hepworth's father as an engineer who became county surveyor and notes her middle-class upbringing.[9] The Tate museum guide states that Hepworth laid out her garden with help from composer Priaulx Rainier.[11]
References
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gale, "Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975", Tate, April 1997 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Biography", barbarahepworth.org.uk; "Biography", barbarahepworth.org.uk; Bowness, "'Rhythm of the Stones': Barbara Hepworth and Music", Tate, 2003, p. 25; Hepworth, "Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography", Praeger Publishers, 1970 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Biography", barbarahepworth.org.uk. facts only, no text reused. barbarahepworth.org.uk
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Festing, "Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms", 1995, p. xviii, 24; "Barbara Hepworth", Cornwall County Council, 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gale, "Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975", Tate, April 1997; Gale, "Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975", Tate, April 1997; "Biography", barbarahepworth.org.uk; "Biography", barbarahepworth.org.uk; "Biography", barbarahepworth.org.uk; Gale, "Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975", Tate, April 1997; "The personal and professional life of Barbara Hepworth", The National Archives blog, 10 July 2015; "Divorce Court File: 1565. Appellant: Jocelyn Barbara Skeaping. Respondent: John Rattenbury Skeaping...", The National Archives, 1931; "Biography", barba en.wikipedia.org
- Gale, "Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975", Tate, April 1997. facts only, no text reused. tate.org.uk
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: MacCarthy, "Touchy feely", The Guardian, 17 May 2003; Bowness, "Life and work", barbarahepworth.org.uk; Riggs, "Ben Nicholson OM 1894–1982", Tate (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Bowness, "Life and work", barbarahepworth.org.uk. facts only, no text reused. barbarahepworth.org.uk
- MacCarthy, "Touchy feely", The Guardian, 17 May 2003. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden", Tate; "Great Women Artists", Phaidon Press, 2019, p. 183 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden", Tate. facts only, no text reused. tate.org.uk
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Penwith Society", cornwallartists.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gale, "Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975", Tate, April 1997; Gale, "Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975", Tate, April 1997; Stephens, "Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden", Tate, 2002; "Gorsedh Procession through St Just", BFI Player; Stephens, "Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden", Tate, 2002; Bowness, "Life and work", barbarahepworth.org.uk (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barbara Hepworth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bowness, "Biography", barbarahepworth.org.uk (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Barbara Hepworth (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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