Hepworth, Barbara Reference library
Heidi A. Strobel
The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
...Publications, 1994. Curtis, Penelope , and Alan G. Wilkinson . Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective . Liverpool, U.K.: Tate Gallery Publications, 1994. Gale, Matthew , and Chris Stephens . Barbara Hepworth . London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1999. Gardiner, Margaret . Barbara Hepworth: A Memoir . Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1982. Hepworth, Barbara . Barbara Hepworth: The Tate Gallery, 3 April–19 May 1968 . London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1968. Hepworth, Barbara . A Pictorial Autobiography . New York: Praeger, 1970. Potts, Alex . The Sculptural...
Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0Barbara Barbara Hepworth 1903 – 75 English sculptor Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels. Herbert Read (ed.) Unit One (1934) I rarely draw what I see—I draw what I feel in my body. Alan Bowness Barbara Hepworth—Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape ...
Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...0Barbara Barbara Hepworth 1903 – 75 English sculptor I rarely draw what I see—I draw what I feel in my body. Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape (1966) rarely draw what I see draw what I feel in my body draw what I feel in my body Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels. Herbert Read (ed.) Unit One (1934) carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion masses conveying an ...
Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3 ed.)
...0Barbara Barbara Hepworth 1903 – 75 English sculptor . A pioneer of abstraction in British sculpture, she worked in wood, stone, and bronze and is noted for her simple monumental works in landscape and architectural settings I rarely draw what I see—I draw what I feel in my body. Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape (1966) rarely draw what I see draw what I feel in my body draw what I feel in my ...
Hepworth, Dame Barbara (1903–76) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
..., Dame Barbara ( 1903–76 ) English sculptor . She shared Henry Moore 's interest in the techniques of carving. Her early pieces were mainly in wood and stone, using their natural qualities to produce fluid forms such as Figure in sycamore ( 1931 ). She married ( 1932–51 ) the abstract painter Ben Nicholson . In the 1950s, Hepworth began to work in bronze. Later works include the memorial to Dag Hammerskojd , Single form ( 1963...
Hepworth, Dame Barbara (1903–75) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
..., Dame Barbara ( 1903–75 ). English sculptor. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Hepworth studied at Leeds School of Art, where Henry Moore was a fellow student, and the Royal College, London. A stay in Italy ( 1924–6 ) was followed by her first London exhibition. During the 1930s Hepworth and her husband Ben Nicholson were active in the abstract groups the 7 & 5 Society and Unit One. Her work is essentially biomorphic in appearance, with smooth sensual finishes. In Pierced Form ( 1931 ; destr.) she first used the device of a hole, which was to become...
Hepworth, Dame Barbara (1903–75) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (3 ed.)
...a child in her arms it is not so much what I see that affects me, but what I feel within my own body’ (Whitechapel Art Gallery, ‘Barbara Hepworth Retrospective Exhibition’, 1954 ). In all her work she showed a deep understanding of the quality of her materials and superb standards of craftsmanship. Further Reading P. Curtis and A. G. Wilkinson , Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective (1994) A. M. Hammacher , Barbara Hepworth ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
..., Dame Barbara ( b Wakefield, Yorkshire , 10 Jan. 1903 ; d St Ives, Cornwall , 20 May 1975 ). British sculptor , one of the most important figures in the development of abstract art in Britain. She trained at Leeds School of Art, where she became a friend of Henry Moore , and at the Royal College of Art . Her early sculptures were quasi-naturalistic and had much in common with Moore's work ( Doves , 1927 , Manchester AG), but she already showed a tendency to submerge detail in simple forms, and by the early 1930s her work had become entirely abstract...
Hepworth, Dame Barbara Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
..., Dame Barbara ( b Wakefield, Yorkshire, 10 Jan. 1903 ; d St Ives, Cornwall, 20 May 1975 ). British sculptor, one of the most important figures in the development of abstract art in Britain. She trained at Leeds School of Art, where she became a friend of Henry Moore , and at the Royal College of Art . Her early sculptures were quasi-naturalistic and had much in common with Moore’s work ( Doves , 1927 , Manchester AG), but she already showed a tendency to submerge detail in simple forms, and by the early 1930s her work was entirely abstract. At...
Hepworth, Dame Barbara (1903–1975) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture (2 ed.)
..., Dame Barbara ( 1903–1975 ) A British sculptor of stylized, and later, of purely formal and abstract figures in stone, wood, and bronze. She became lifelong friends with fellow student Henry Moore (at Leeds ( 1919–24 ) then at the Royal College of Art, London), obtaining a travel scholarship to Italy 1924–5 . Her first one-woman show ( 1949 ) was in the United States, at Durlacher Bros. New York. By mid-century she achieved a world-wide reputation, and made Construction (Crucifixion) for the interior of Salisbury Cathedral in 1966 . Found to be...
Hepworth, Dame (Jocelyn) Barbara (1903–1975) Quick reference
Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
..., Dame (Jocelyn) Barbara ( 1903–1975 ) British sculptor who, with Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore , led the abstract movement in Britain in the 1930s. She was made a DBE in 1965 . Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, she trained at the Leeds School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London ( 1921–24 ). Here she was a contemporary of the sculptor Henry Moore , who came from the same mining district in Yorkshire and whose artistic development ran parallel to hers until the 1930s. She studied in Florence and Rome before returning to London in 1926 . In ...
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