Barbara hepworth brief biography of william
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Barbara Hepworth was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
Born in Wakefield in 1903. She trained in at Leeds School of Art between 1920 and 1921, and, on a county scholarship, at the Royal College of Art from 1921 to 1924, meeting the painters Raymond Coxon and Edna Ginesi and the sculptor Henry Moore. Hepworth was runner-up to John Skeaping for the 1924 Prix dem Rome, but travelled to Florence on a West Riding Travel Scholarship. After visiting Rome and Siena with Skeaping, they were married in Florence on 13 May 1925 and moved to Rome, where both began carving stone. In November 1926, they returned to London. The collector George Eumorfopoulos visited their studio show in 1927 because of forged Links with the sculptor Richard Bedford (a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum) through the British School at Rome, and as a result Eumorfopoulos bought two of Hepworth's works. The couple moved to Hampstead in 1928, where Hepworth remained until 1939. They be
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Alan Bowness: Life and work
Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1903 and studied at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. She learned to carve stone while in Rome in 1925-6, together with her first husband the sculptor John Skeaping. This was not part of the sculptor's normal training at that time, but considered the work of a stonemason. Hepworth thus aligned herself to the direct carving movement championed by modernist sculptors such as Brancusi, Epstein and Gaudier-Brzeska. After their return to London, Hepworth and Skeaping held their first important exhibition, showing mainly stone carvings of figures and animals, at the Beaux Arts Gallery in June 1928. A second joint exhibition followed at the gallery of Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, in October 1930.
Hepworth had by this stage built up a circle of influential admirers of her work, including George Hill and Laurence Binyon (who both worked at the British Museum), the great collecto
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Barbara Hepworth
English artist and sculptor (1903–1975)
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture.[1] Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Hepworth studied at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in the 1920s. She married the sculptor John Skeaping in 1925. In 1931 she fell in love with the painter Ben Nicholson, and in 1933 divorced Skeaping. At this time she was part of a circle of modern artists centred on Hampstead, London, and was one of the founders of the art movement Unit One.
At the beginning of the Second World War Hepworth and Nicholson moved to St Ives, Cornwall, where she would remain for the rest of her life. Best known as a sculptor, Hepworth also produced drawin