Barbara Hepworth
(1903-1975), Sculptor; second wife of Ben NicholsonDame Barbara Hepworth
Sitter in 29 portraits
Artist of 1 portrait
Born and brought up in Wakefield in Yorkshire, Hepworth went from Leeds School of Art to the Royal College of Art in 1921. She won a travel scholarship in 1924 to Italy, where she married the sculptor John Skeaping. She joined the Seven and Five Society in 1931, and was a member of the avant-garde art groups Abstraction-Creation and Unit One. In common with Henry Moore and her second husband the artist Ben Nicholson, Hepworth's work achieved international status. During her lifetime, retrospective exhibitions were held at the Rijksmuseum (1965) and Tate Gallery (1968). Her studio in St Ives, Cornwall is now a museum. She was made a Dame in 1965.
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1933 (St Rémy - self-portrait with Barbara Hepworth)
by Ben Nicholson
oil on canvas, 1933
NPG 5591
by Naum Gabo
pencil on paper, circa 1940
NPG 7057
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by Barbara Hepworth
oil and pencil on board, 1950
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5919
by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 26 February 1964
NPG P797(20)
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 26 February 1964
NPG P1951
by John Hedgecoe
cibachrome print, 1970
NPG P773
by Peter Keen
glossy unglazed bromide print, mid 1950s
NPG x36003
by Peter Keen
vintage bromide print, mid 1950s
NPG x35116
by Peter Keen
bromide print, late 1950s
NPG x88862
Barbara Hepworth at work on the armature of a sculpture
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1961
NPG x88502
Barbara Hepworth with her cat Nicholas and her sculpture 'Reclining Form (Rosewall)'
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1961
NPG x88512
Barbara Hepworth at work on the armature of a sculpture
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1961
NPG x88513
Barbara Hepworth at work on the armature of a sculpture
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1961
NPG x88517
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1961
NPG x88514
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1961
NPG x88515
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1961
NPG x88516
by Crispin Eurich
bromide print, 1961
NPG x26706
Barbara Hepworth with her cat Nicholas and her sculpture 'Reclining Form (Rosewall)'
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1961
NPG x31619
by Walter Bird
bromide print on card mount, 14 October 1965
NPG x165779
Links
- All paintings by this artist on the Art UK website
- Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden, St Ives, Cornwall
- Barbara Hepworth website
- Dame Barbara Hepworth in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- New Art Centre, Wiltshire
- Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland
- The Hepworth, Wakefield
- Wakefield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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