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Barbara Hepworth

(British, 1903–1975)

Barbara Hepworth

Landscape Sculpture, 1947

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Biography

Timeline

1903: Born in Yorkshire
: Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
1920 - 1921: Trained at Leeds School of Art
1921 - 1924: Trained at the Royal College of Art in London
1924 - 1926: Lived and worked in Rome, Italy, with her first husband, the sculptor John Skeaping
: Studied at the British School, Rome, studied carving under Ardini
1925: Married sculptor John Skeaping
1926: Hepworth and Skeaping returned to London and became involved with the London Group and the 7 & 5 Society, and became key figures in the new direct carving movement
1929 - 1939: Lived in Hampstead, England
1930 - 1933: Met, and later married, Ben Nicholson. The two pioneered a move towards abstraction in, respectively, sculpture and painting.
1930 - 1936: member, 7 x 5 Society, London
1933 - 1935: worked with Abstraction-Creation group, Paris, and Unit One, London
1933: Divorced sculptor John Skeaping
1935: Joined Astraction-Création and was also member of Unit One
1936: On the outbreak of World War II, moved to St Ives in Cornwall where she remained for the rest of her life
: Married Ben Nicholson
1939 - 1945: owned and operated nursery school and market garden, St. Ives
1949: co-founder, with Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach and others, Penwith Society of Arts, St. Ives
1951: Divorced Ben Nicholson
: Gold Medal, Hoffman Wood Trust, Leeds
1958: Honorary member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1973
1959: Grand Prize, Bienal, São Paulo
1960: Grand Prix, Prefecture des Alpes-Maritimes, Nice
: Honorary degree University of Birmingham
1961: Honorary degree University of Leeds
1963: Foreign Minister's Award, Tokyo Biennal
1965: Made a Dame of the British Empire
1966: Honorary degree University of Exeter
1968: Honorary degree Oxford University
: Honorary fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford
1970: Honorary degree London University
: Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art London
1975: Died in St. Ives, Cornwall, England

Exhibitions

2016: Barbara Hepworth Exhibitions in 2016:
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World,Arp Museum, Rolandseck, Germany
2015 - 2016: Barbara Hepworth Exhibitions in 2015-16:
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World,Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
2015: Barbara Hepworth Exhibitions in 2015:
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World, Tate Britain, Westminster, UK
2013: Barbara Hepworth Exhibitions in 2013:
Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings, The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2011: Barbara Hepworth Exhibitions in 2011:
Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters, The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2009: "Moore, Hepworth, Nicholson: A Nest of Gentle Artists in the 1930's" Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, England (group)
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, England (group)
"Marble" Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Modern British Art, Offer Waterman & Co., London, UK (group)
2008: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England (group)
"Modernism in St. Ives" Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall, England (group)
The Human Image in the Twentieth Century: Works from the Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan (group)
2006: Hayward Gallery, London (group)
: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, France (solo)
Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from the 1940s, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, UK
2005: Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London (solo)
2004: Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition, IVAM: Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, London, UK (solo)
2003: Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition, Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda, The Netherlands
Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition, Tate St. Ives
Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Garden, Wakefield, UK
Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Salisbury, UK
2002: Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (group)
Barbara Hepworth, Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, UK
2001 - 2002: New Art Center, Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury (solo)
2001: "Barbara Hepworth: Stone Sculpture" Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
"Hepworth by the Sea," De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (solo)
Barbara Hepworth, Polished Bronzes, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Salisbury, UK
1999: Barbara Hepworth: Conversation with Magic Stones, The Center for Public Sculpture, New York, NY
1998: Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (group)
1997 - 1998: Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (group)
1996: "Barbara Hepworth: Sculptures from the Estate" Wildenstein & Company, New York, NY (solo)
1994 - 1995: Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective,Tate Gallery, Liverpool and travelling to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1994: Barbara Hepworth: Lithographs Made at Curwen Studio 1969 and 1971, Curwen Gallery, London, UK
1991 - 1992: Barbara Hepworth: The Art Gallery of Ontario Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1988: "The Non-Objective World Revisited," Annely Juda Fine Art, London (group)
1987 - 1988: Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (solo)
Barbara Hepworth: Ten Sculptures 1951–1973, New Art Centre, London, UK
1985: Barbara Hepworth: Late Carvings, Elizabeth Exhibition Gallery, Wakefield, Yorkshire (solo)
Barbara Hepworth: Early Life, Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK
1983: Barbara Hepworth: a Sculptor’s Landscape 1934–1974, Swansea Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea, UK
1982: Barbara Hepworth: carvings, Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
Barbara Hepworth, Storm King Art Center, New York, New York
1980: Barbara Hepworth, Yorkshire Sculptural Park, Breton Hall, near Wakefield (solo)
1979: Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, Marlborough Gallery, New York (solo)
Marlborough Gallery, London (solo)
1978: Barbara Hepworth: A selection of small bronzes and prints, organized by The Scottish Arts Council, Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels (toured Scotland) (solo)
1977: Burleighfield International Arts Centre, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (solo)
Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York, NY
Barbara Hepworth, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
1976: Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh (solo)
1975: Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel Fils, London (solo)
William Darby, London (solo)
Marlborough Gallery, Zurich (solo)
1974: Barbara Hepworth: ‘Conversations’, Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York, New York
1973: Barbara Hepworth, Exeter University Campus Open-Air Exhibition, Exeter, Great Britain
Barbara Hepworth, Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1972: Barbara Hepworth: The Family of Man—Nine Bronzes and Recent Carvings, Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel Fils, London (solo)
1971: Barbara Hepworth, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Barbara Hepworth: Aegean Suite, Gustav Vigeland Museum, Norway
Barbara Hepworth: The Aegean Suite: Nine Lithographs, Curwen Gallery, London, UK
Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY
1970: Barbara Hepworth, Exhibition to coincide with the Award of Grand Prix as Woman Artist of the Year given by the Prefect of the Alpes-Martimes, Nice, France
Barbara Hepworth, City Art Gallery, Plymouth, MA
Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan, traveled to: Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan
Barbara Hepworth: Recent Work Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, UK
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Lithographs, Arts Council of Great Britain, Abbotsholme, Uttoxeter (toured the UK)
1969: Barbara Hepworth Lithographs, Penwith Gallery, St. Ives, UK
Twelve Lithographs by Barbara Hepworth, Curwen Gallery, London, UK
Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY
1968: Tate Gallery, London (solo)
1966: Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape, London: Cory Adams & Mackay, UK
Barbara Hepworth: mostra fotografica, con disegni e bronzi originali, British Council, Florence, Italy
Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
Barbara Hepworth, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York, New York
1965: Beeldhouwwerken en tekeningen van Barbara Hepworth, Rijksmuseum Krller-Mller, Otterlo. The exhibition traveled in reduced form to Kunsthalle Basel, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, and Karlsruhe and Essen
Barbara Hepworth: skulptur og tegninger, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Barbara Hepworth: veistoksia ja piirustuksia = skulpturer och teckningar, Ateneum, Helsinki,
1964: Barbara Hepworth, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (toured Scandinavia)
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Barbara Hepworth, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
1963: Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Zurich (solo)
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, John Lewis Auditorium, London, UK
1962: Barbara Hepworth: an exhibition of sculpture from 1952–1962, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Abstract Form and Life: Sculpture by Barbara Hepworth and Biological Models, Queen’s University of Belfast Visual Arts Group
1961 - 1963: Barbara Hepworth: An Exhibition of Photographs of Sculpture and Drawings with some Original Bronze, Arranged by the British Council, British Council, London, Traveled to: Ceylon, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sarawak, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaya
1961: Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
1960: Barbara Hepworth, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1959: Bienal, São Paulo (toured South America)
Galerie Chalette, New York (solo)
1958: Recent works by Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Leeds City Art Gallery (solo)
1956: Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York
Recent works by Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
1955 - 1956: Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, 1937–1954, organized by Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Traveled to: Walker Art Center; The University of Nebraska Art Galleries; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Albright Art Gallery; The Art Gallery of Toronto; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and The Baltimore Museum of Art
1954: Barbara Hepworth: Retrospective Exhibition of Carvings and Drawings from 1927–1954, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (solo)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (solo)
1952: New Sculpture and Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, The Lefevre Gallery, London, UKReid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo)
1951: Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester,
1950: Retrospective: Barbara Hepworth, XXV Biennale, Venice (solo)
Penwith Society of Arts, St. Ives (with Ben Nicholson and Victor Pasmore)
New Sculpture and Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo)
1949: Barbara Hepworth: drawings, Durlacher Brothers, New York (solo)
1948: Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo)
1946: Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo)
1944: Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, Wakefield City Art Gallery, Wakefield (traveled to the Bankfield Museum, Halifax) (solo)
1943: Retrospective: Barbara Hepworth, Temple Newsam, Leeds (with Paul Nash)
1937: Catalogue of Sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo)
1933: Barbara Hepworth (and Ben Nicholson), Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (with Ben Nicholson)
1932: Barbara Hepworth (and Ben Nicholson), Arthur Tooths Gallery, London (with Ben Nicholson)
1930: Barbara Hepworth (and John Skeaping), Arthur Tooths Gallery, London (with John Skeaping)
1928: Barbara Hepworth (with William Morgan and John Skeaping), Beaux Arts Gallery, London (with John Skeaping and William Norman)

Literature

2015: Fletcher, Valerie J. Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2015: 64–75
Picasso and the 20th Century Art: Masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Station Gallery, 2015: 96–7, illustrated.
2013: De Botton, Alain and John Armstrong. Art as Therapy. London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 2013: 141, illustrated.
De Young: Inside and Out. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2013: 49, illustrated.
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects(exhibition catalogue). Lincoln: Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013, illustrated.
2012: Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings (exhibition catalogue). Text by Nathaniel Hepburn. London: Tate Publishing, 2012.
Beard, Lee, Adam Butler, Claire Van Cleave, Diane Fortenberry and Susan Stirling. The Art Book. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2012: 250, illustrated.
Treasure Island: British Art From Holbein to Hockney (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Richard Humphreys, Tim Blanning, and Kevin Jackson. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2012: 274, illustrated.
2011: Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters. The Gift to Wakefield (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Sophie Bowness; texts by sophie Bowness, David Chipperfiled, Francess Guy, Jackie Heuman, Tessa Jackson, Simon Wallis, and Gordon Watson. Surrey: Lund Humphries, 2011.
Barbara Hepworth: Unique Sculptures, Bridget Riley: Early Paintings. London: Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 2011: illustrated.
Rylands, Philip, ed. Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection. Text by Nicholas Fox Weber; interview by Lisa Jacobs. New York: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2011: 91, illustrated.
2010: 50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2010: illustrated.
The Human Image in the Twentieth Century: Works from the Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum (exhibition catalogue). Japan: Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010: 37, illustrated.
2009: Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Nancy Hall-Duncan and Joan Pachner. Greenwich: Bruce Museum, 2009: 20, 54, 75–76, illustrated.
Kennedy, Brian P. and Emily Schubert Burke, eds. Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art. Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2009: 217, illustrated.
Modern British Art (exhibition catalogue). London: Offer Waterman & Co., 2009: 11, illus.
Phifer, Jean Parker. Public Art New York. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2009: 93, illustrated.
Richard, Sophie. Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967–77: Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections. London: Ridinghouse, 2009.
2008: Dictionnaire International de la Sculpture Moderne & Contemporaine. Paris: Éditions du Regard, 2008: 240–41, illustrated.
The History Book: On Moderna Museet 1958–2008. Germany: Steidl, 2008.
The Human Image in the Twentieth Century: Works from the Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum (exhibition catalogue). Translated by Stanley N. Anderson. Tatebayashi, Japan: Gunma Museum of Art, 2008.
2007: Neff, Terry Ann R. The Fisher Collection: A–K. Text by Mark Rosenthal. San Francisco: Doris and Donald Fisher, 2007: 242–245, 375, illustrated.
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Government Art Collection.London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2007: 133, illustrated.
2006: VIP III: Arena der Abstraktion (exhibition catalogue). Leverkusen, Germany: Museum Morsbroich, 2006.
2004: Barbara Hepworth.Valencia: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2004.
2003: Bowness, Sophie. Barbara Hepworth and the Yorkshire Landscape: An Anthology of Her Writings and Recollections. West Bretton, Wakefield: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2003.
Sculpture of the 20th Century by British and European Artists. London: The Grosvenor Gallery, 2003.
Stephens, Chris ed. Barbara Hepworth Centenary. London: Tate Publishing, 2003.
2002: The Cultural Desert: Art, Medicine & Environment (exhibition catalogue). Scottsdale: Mayo Clinic 2002.
Phillips, Miranda and Chris Stephens. Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St Ives. London: Tate Publishing, 2002.
Winter Group Show (exhibition catalogue). New York: PaceWildenstein, 2002.
2001: Barbara Hepworth: Stone Sculpture. Text by Sophie Bowness. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2001.
St. Ives eighty years of modernism (exhibition catalogue). London: Julian Lax, 2001.
2000: Hepworth, Lipchitz, Moore. New York: Marlborough, 2000.
1999: Gale, Mathew and Chris Stephens. Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives. London: Tate Gallery, 1999.
Modern Masterworks on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (exhibition catalogue). Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
1998: Causey, Andrew. Sculpture Since 1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998: 22, 42–44, 63, 75–78,187, Pelagos 43.
Curtis, Penelope. Barbara Hepworth. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 1998.
The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works (exhibition catalogue). Orlando, Florida: Orlando Museum of Art, 1998.
1996: Barbara Hepworth: Sculptures from the Estate. Text by Alan G. Wilkinson. New York: Wildenstein, 1996.
Thistlewood, David. Barbara Hepworth: Reconsidered. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1996.
Un siecle de sculpture anglaise. Paris: Jeu de Paume, 1996.
1995: Sally Festing. Barbara Hepworth: a Life of Forms. London: Viking, 1995.
1994: Curtis, Penelope and Alan G. Wilkinson. Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective. London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1994.
1993: Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography. London: Tate Gallery, 1993. Reprint, London: Tate Gallery, 1995.
Tooby, Michael. Tate Gallery St. Ives, Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden: An Illustrated Companion. London: Tate Gallery, 1993.
1982: Barbara Hepworth: A Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St. Ives, Cornwall. Introduction by David Fraser Jenkins. London: Tate Gallery, 1982.
Gardiner, Margaret. Barbara Hepworth: a Memoir. Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1982. New edition published in 1994 by Lund Humphries, London.
Hepworth, Barbara. A Pictorial Autobiography. London: Tate Gallery, 1985. Reprint, London: Tate Gallery, 1993.
1979: Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes (exhibition catalogue). New York: Marlborough Gallery Inc., 1979.
1976: Bowness, Alan. A Guide to the Barbara Hepworth Museum. St. Ives: Trewyn Studio and Garden, 1976. (Reprinted in 1984).
1972: Barbara Hepworth: The Family of Man, Nine Bronzes and Recent Carvings (exhibition catalogue). Text by A.M. Hammacher. London: Marlborough Fine Art, 1972.
1971: Bowness, Alan, ed. The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960–69. London: Lund Humphries, 1971.
1970: Barbara Hepworth: a Pictorial Autobiography. Bath: Adams and Dart, 1970. (Revised editions, 1978 and 1985).
1968: A. M. Hammacher. Barbara Hepworth. London: Thames and Hudson, 1968. (Revised edition, 1987).
1966: Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape; with an introduction to the drawings by Alan Bowness. London: Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1966.
1964: The Unveiling of ‘Single Form’ by Barbara Hepworth, Gift of Jacob Blaustein after a Wish of Dag Hammarskjold. New York: United Nations, 1964.
1963: Michael Shepherd. Barbara Hepworth. London: Methuen, 1963.
1961: J. P. Hodin. Barbara Hepworth. London: Lund Humphries; Neuchatel: Editions du Griffon, 1961. With a complete catalogue of sculptures 1925–59 by Alan Bowness.
1959: Francis Bacon, S.W. Hayter, and Barbara Hepworth (exhibition catalogue). Text by J.P. Hodin. London: British Council, 1959.
1958: A. M. Hammacher. Barbara Hepworth. London: A. Zwemmer, 1958.
1954: Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective Exhibition of Carvings and Drawings from 1927–1954 (exhibition catalogue). London: Whitechapel Art Gallery.
1952: Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings. Introduction by Herbert Read. London: Lund Humphries, 1952.
1950: John Constable, Matthew Smith, Barbara Hepworth. Text by David Lewis. Organized by the British Council. Venice: The Biennale, 1950.
1946: Barbara Hepworth: Sculptress. Introduction by William Gibson. Collected and edited by Lillian Browse. London: Faber and Faber, 1946.

Barbara Hepworth

(British, 1903–1975)

Barbara Hepworth

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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