Hepworth’s first holed sculpture ‘Pierced Form’ was shown in 1932. After Christmas, the Hepworth-Nicholson family moves to Dunluce, a nearby house in Carbis Bay. [2] Her father was a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 advanced to the role of County Surveyor. Getty/Fox Photos

Marriage to Ben Nicholson in November, following his divorce from his first wife, Winifred. Yorkshire’s countryside was to be a permanent influence on her work, as later was that of Cornwall, her final home. At this time, Hepworth is interested in ideas for large-scale works: her first large carving is Monumental Stele, 1936.

A.M. Hammacher's Barbara Hepworth is published by Thames and Hudson (revised edition, 1987). …Unit One was the painter Paul Nash, but the leading members were Barbara Hepworth and her painter husband, Ben Nicholson. “For example, in ‘Disc with Strings (Moon)’, the string,” says Rachel Rose Smith, “is used to represent a kind of tension and to describe a space. The art critic Corinne Julius meets the curator Rachel Rose Smith to discuss Barbara Hepworth's use of line. © Bowness. [11] In 1933, Hepworth co-founded the Unit One art movement with Nicholson and Paul Nash, the critic Herbert Read, and the architect Wells Coates. Pop art includes imagery from popular culture, such as, advertising, cartoons, news etc. We talk to Artist-in-Residence Kate Owens about her innovative block print technique. Her towering Single Form, a tribute to her friend Dag Haamarskjöld, came to represent the peacemaking instinct of the UN, when it was unveiled in New York. To complete the large-scale piece Hepworth hired her first assistants, Terry Frost, Denis Mitchell, and John Wells. Hepworth wins the Foreign Minister's Award at the 7th Tokyo Biennale. Bronze. [I had] the strange feeling that one could make anything and do anything and shape anything.” She adds: “I was striving to make a thing which I could live with and hold and touch and which would have some sense of eternity in it.”, This self-belief propelled her to take up carving – an activity that was not unusual for women artists at the time. 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.

Photograph by Hans Wild, Contrapuntal Forms on London's South Bank during the Festival of Britain, 1951, Hepworth at her Whitechapel exhibition, 1954, with Monolith (Empyrean), Madonna and Child, Bianco del Mare, 1954 (BH 193), St Ives Parish Church, Hepworth in the garden at Trewyn Studio, 1957. [1] Hepworth was also the runner-up for the Prix-de-Rome, which the sculptor John Skeaping won.

In Paris in January, meets Mondrian and Kandinsky. All works by Barbara Hepworth © Bowness.

3. Hepworth was born in 1903 in Wakefield. Publication of major monograph Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, with an introduction by Herbert Read and statements by the artist. [8] At Hepworth's request, she and Skeaping were divorced that year. Time and time again she was seen his disciple, rather than his peer, an inferior rather than an independent sculptor working in her own idiom. Summer holiday at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast with Skeaping, Nicholson, Henry and Irina Moore, Ivon Hitchens.

She never had any doubts, apparently. This period of creativity in London with Nicholson is recorded in a series of photographic albums, which reveal the entwined and harmonious nature of their lives. Certainly at the end of her career there were younger women writers who were interested in writing about her but she didn’t think they were valuable.”. 1 month ago, Chloë Ashby explores Scottish art history in the work of ten like-minded artists. In 1925, Barbara learned to carve marble from the master sculptor, #6 Barbara Hepworth is famous for her pierced sculptures, In 1931, two years after the birth of her first child, Hepworth started to pierce her carvings thus, #7 Hepworth’s most famous work is the monumental bronze sculpture Single Form. From left to right: Ivon Hitchens, Irina Moore, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Mary Jenkins. Hepworth met the painter Ben Nicholson in 1931, with whom she lived and subsequently married in 1938.

Exhibits in the open air sculpture exhibition in Battersea Park, May–September. It has allowed Jonathan Jones, writing in this newspaper, to suggest that she is “easy to get bored by” and “second rate”. Those trips would inform her work, with its fascination with materials shaping form, she would later say in 1961.

Elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. For a number of years, the two artists made work in close proximity to each other, developing a way of working that was almost like a collaboration. Her time spent with the children – Rachel, Sarah and Simon – seems “to have deepened her own developing interest in the unconscious nature of making, and of the magic or secret life of forms”. Dag was killed in 1961 en route to cease-fire negotiations and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Her sculptures appeared in major world exhibitions, and in civic spaces, particularly in universities, becoming part of the idealism of postwar Britain. WATCH: Louis DeJoy Says He Doesn’t Know Who OK’d Changes at U.S. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Respondent: John...", Paul Nash: Modern artist, ancient landscape: Room guide: Unit One: 'A Contemporary Spirit', "Artist Biography: Ben Nicholson OM 1894–1982", About Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, "Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings 27th November 2012", Dame Barbara Hepworth: Two Figures (Heroes) 1954, "Representation and Reputation: Barbara Hepworth's Relationships with her American and British Dealers", "Christie's announces selections from the Israel Museum to benefit the acquisitions fund", "Barbara Hepworth and Gimpel Fils: The Rise and Fall of an Artist-Dealer Relationship", "Fifty Years at the heart of British Printmaking", "Barbara Hepworth: Graphic works 26 April 2013 – 7 February 2014", "Yorkshire's major new art gallery, opening 21 May 2011", "New Barbara Hepworth gallery opens in Wakefield", Facilities: Art History, Film and Visual Studies; University of Birmingham, "Norwich Sculpture Trails: 2 Around the Cathedral and the Castle", "University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum branches out with art garden", Fact Sheet: History of United Nations Headquarters, "Barbara Hepworth sculpture stolen from Dulwich park", Deceased Members: Deceased Foreign Honorary Members, "Tate Britain brings Barbara Hepworth out of the shadows and back in focus", "Barbara Hepworth: Google Doodle celebrates influential English abstract sculptor", "Barbara Hepworth's time in London marked with blue plaque", "Dame Barbara Hepworth and John Skeaping | Sculptors | Blue Plaques", "How Barbara Hepworth Became a Modern Master of Sculpture", "Archival material relating to Barbara Hepworth", Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture Records, 1925–1975, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Hepworth&oldid=986269620, Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y, Short description is different from Wikidata, Use list-defined references from January 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2020, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with TePapa identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, bronze (see external link to collection of Margaret Gardiner), The facade of Cheltenham House, Cheltenham, This page was last edited on 30 October 2020, at 20:24.