Sphere with Inner Form in Trewyn Garden

The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there.

History[link]

Hepworth's workshop left virtually untouched

The studio, known as Trewyn Studio, was purchased by Barbara Hepworth in 1949, and is typical of the stone-built houses in St Ives. Her living room is furnished as she left it, while the workshop remains full of her tools and equipment, materials, and part-worked pieces.

The sculptures featured at the museum (mainly in the secluded garden) were some of her favourites. Her workshop also includes a queue of uncut stones that one visitor has described as "still waiting for their moment in the shadow of her workshop".

She was helped in the creation of the garden by her friend, the South African-born composer Priaulx Rainier.

Barbara Hepworth died in a fire at this site in 1975, when she was aged 72.

The museum is managed by the Tate gallery.

Books[link]

Close up of Hepworth's tools, in the workshop

• The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden by Miranda Phillips and Chris Stephens. Tate Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-85437-412-5.

See also[link]

• St Ives artists
• Tate St Ives

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Barbara Hepworth Museum

• Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden Visiting information, events information, works on display (Tate Online)
• artcornwall.org online journal for art and artists in Cornwall

Coordinates: 50°12′49″N 5°28′53″W / 50.21361°N 5.48139°W / 50.21361; -5.48139

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Barbara Hepworth
Hepworth's Family of Man in bronze, 1970, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K.
Birth name	Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth
Born	10 January 1903 Wakefield, West Yorkshire,
Died	20 May 1975, (age 72) St Ives, Cornwall
Nationality	British
Field	Sculpture
Training	Leeds School of Art, Royal College of Art
Movement	Modernism, Abstract art
Influenced by	Henry Moore
Awards	DBE

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism, and with such contemporaries as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo she helped to develop modern art (sculpture in particular) in Britain.

Life and work[link]

1966

Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield,^[1] West Yorkshire, the eldest child of Herbert and Gertrude Hepworth. Her father was a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 became County Surveyor. She 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 was awarded the diploma of the Royal College of Art in 1924.^[2] She later studied for a period in Italy.

Hepworth's first marriage was to the sculptor John Skeaping, with whom she had a son, Paul, in 1929.^[3] Her second marriage was to the painter Ben Nicholson. They married on 17 November 1938 at Hampstead Register Office. The couple had triplets in 1934, Simon, Rachel and Sarah; Simon also became an artist. The couple divorced in 1951. Her eldest son, Paul, was killed on 13 February 1953 in a plane crash while serving with the Royal Air Force in Thailand. Hepworth created a memorial to him, entitled Madonna and Child,^[4] in the church in St Ives.^[5]

One of her most prestigious works is Single Form,^[6] 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.

Hepworth was featured in the 1964 documentary film 5 British Sculptors (Work and Talk) by American filmmaker Warren Forma. She was made a dame in 1965,^[7] ten years before her death during a fire in her St Ives studio in Cornwall, aged seventy-two.

On 20 December 2011 her 1969 sculpture Two Forms (Divided Circle) was stolen, from its plinth in Dulwich Park, South London, by suspected scrap metal thieves. The piece, which had been in the park since 1970, was insured for £500,000, a spokesman for Southwark Council said.^[8]

Galleries holding her work[link]

Hepworth's former studio and home now form the Barbara Hepworth Museum. A new £35 million museum dedicated to Hepworth, the Hepworth Wakefield, opened in Britain in May 2011 at Wakefield in West Yorkshire.^[9][10][11]

Her work may also be seen at St Catherine's College, Oxford,^[12] the School of Music at Cardiff University,^[13] the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, West Yorkshire; Clare College,^[14] Churchill College^[15] and Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall),^[16] Cambridge; Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk; and on view in or attached to the John Lewis department store,^[17] part of the John Lewis Partnership, in Oxford Street (see picture); and Kenwood House, both in London. Seaform (Atlantic) may be viewed in a newly created open space on St George's Street Norwich; it has been seen to be used by the Norwich parcour group to hang from horizontally and move through its apertures as part of their own physical urban art form (the sculpture was relocated from the Norwich Castle gardens for fear the precious bronze would be stolen and melted down for scrap).^[18] Her 1966 work, Construction (Crucifixion): Homage to Mondrian,^[19] can be seen in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral next to The Pilgrims' School; Hieroglyph can be seen at Leeds Art Gallery.^[20] The Tate Gallery owns many of her works. In the Netherlands, the Kröller-Müller Museum also owns several of her sculptures. Curved Form (Trevalgan) (1956), which stood in Margaret Gardiner's rear garden in Hampstead, is now at the Pier Art Gallery in Stromness together with 67 other works donated by Gardiner. Trevalgan was Hepworth's first entire bronze form.

Marble portrait heads dating from London, ca. 1927, of Barbara Hepworth by John Skeaping, and of Skeaping by Hepworth, are documented by photograph in the Skeaping Retrospective catalogue,^[21] but are both believed to be lost.

Gallery[link]

List of selected works[link]

Winged Figure, 1963, on the side of the John Lewis department store, Oxford Street, London

Sphere with Inner Form (1963) at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands.

See also[link]

• Kate Nicholson

References[link]

Notes

Sources

• Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth. Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-225-4.
• Barbara Hepworth, Hepworth, Barbara: A Pictorial Autobiography. Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-149-5.

External links[link]

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• Biography^{[dead link]}
• Leslie Sacks Fine Art Biography
• Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Barbara Hepworth in the Tate Collection
• Barbara Hepworth in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
• Collection of Margaret Gardiner at the Pier Art Gallery, Stromness, Orkney including Trevalgan, 1956
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• artcornwall.org online journal for art and artists in Cornwall
• Archival material relating to Barbara Hepworth listed at the UK National Register of Archives

Further reading[link]

• 2011: Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters by Sophie Bowness with contributions by Sophie Bowness, David Chipperfield, Frances Guy, Jackie Heuman, Tessa Jackson, Simon Wallis and Gordon Watson (Lund Humphries) ISBN 978-1-84822-066-9