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Barbara Hepworth
Artist's Name: Barbara Hepworth
Preferred medium: sculpture / plastik
birth year: 1903
Nationality: GB
City: St Ives / Cornwall

Barbara Hepworth - Profile

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975, christened Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth) was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. She was a contemporary and friend of Henry Moore. Hepworth was born in Wakefield[1], West Yorkshire, attended Wakefield Girls High School, and won a scholarship and studied at the Leeds School of Art from 1920 (where she met Moore). She then won a County scholarship to the Royal College of Art and studied there from 1921 until she awarded the diploma of the Royal College of Art in 1924[2]. She later studied for a period in Italy. Barbara Hepworth is one of the most significant sculptors and artists of the 20th century. Her work exemplifies Modernism and along with her contemporaries in England such as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and others she helped to develop modern art (sculpture in particular) immeasurably. One of her most prestigious works is Single Form[3], in memory of her friend and collector of her works Dag Hammarskjöld, at the United Nations building in New York City. It was commissioned in 1961 by the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation following Hammarskjöld's death in a plane crash. (Wikipedia)

important exhibitions from Barbara Hepworth

Exhibition Location City Country Date
The Far and The Near: Replaying Art in St Ives Tate St. Ives St. Ives GB 06.10.2012
New Perspectives on a Living Legacy Tate St. Ives St. Ives GB 15.10.2011
Modern British Sculpture Royal Academy of Arts London GB 22.01.2011
The Brits Kröller Müller Museum KMM Otterlo NL 14.11.2004
Rising with a Sun Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Vaduz LI 10.03.2011
ABSTRACTION AND THE HUMAN FIGURE Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Camjap) Lissabon PT 22.01.2010
The Sculpture Show National Galleries of Scotland Edinburgh GB 17.12.2011
75/65 Der Sammler, das Unternehmen und seine Kollektion Museum Würth Künzelsau DE 25.04.2010
The Last Grand Tour Museum of Cycladic Art, Athen Athen GR 15.04.2011
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art Tate St. Ives St. Ives GB 10.10.2009

WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Barbara Hepworth

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Galleries representing
Barbara Hepworth:

Crane Kalman Gallery
James Goodman
Marlborough Galerie London
New Art Centre
Richard Gray Gallery
Robert Sandelson
The Pace Gallery 32E 57th street
The Pace Gallery 510 W 25th
The Pace Gallery 534 West 25th St
The Pace Gallery 545 West 22nd St
Waddington Galleries

Collections representing
Barbara Hepworth

Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Arts Council Collection
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation - cifo
Cranbrook Art Museum
Deutsche Bank Collection
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Camjap)
Gemeentemuseum Helmond
Henry Moore Institute Leeds
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Kettle's Yard
Kröller Müller Museum KMM
Leeds City Art Gallery
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Middelheim Museum
Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo
Museum im Kulturspeicher
Nasher Sculpture Center
National Gallery of Canada
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (momak)
Norton Simon Museum
Palm Springs Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
Royal College of Art
San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA)
Storm King Art Center
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Tate St. Ives
The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
The McNay Art Museum
UBS Art Collection
UCLA Hammer Museum
Yorkshire Sculpture Park - YSP