Summer holidays at Robin Hood's Bay, near Whitby, North Yorkshire. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Hepworth always made these sculptures featuring holes. In 1934, Hepworth gave birth to triplets: Simon, Rachel and Sarah Hepworth-Nicholson. Hepworth celebrates her 70th birthday in St Ives. Every night she took a sleeping pill, and smoked her last cigarette of the day as she waited for it take effect. In 1933 Hepworth married (her second husband; the first was the sculptor John Skeaping) the English abstract painter Ben Nicholson, under whose influence she began to make severe, geometric pieces with straight edges and immaculate surfaces. July–August, short holiday with Nicholson in Varengeville, near Dieppe, at the invitation of Alexander Calder; they see Braque and Miró there. "Barbara Hepworth Artist Overview and Analysis".
Vertical Forms commissioned for Hatfield Technical College, Hertfordshire. The cramped conditions and demands of a young family meant that Hepworth had little time for sculpture. She had a control and concentration about her. Barbara Hepworth was a British sculptor, who was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1903. They stay in Florence for three months, then live at the British School in Rome, where Skeaping is a Rome Scholar in Sculpture, until November 1926. April, exhibition of the group Unit One, of which both Hepworth and Nicholson are members, at the Mayor Gallery, London. She also traveled to Rome and Siena. Instead, she focused her attention on drawing and studies. Exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art, London, in April–May, including The Family of Man . While studying at the school, she met the sculptor Henry Moore, who was a fello… While studying in Rome in 1925, Hepworth met sculptor John Skeaping, who largely sculpted horse and other animal forms, according to the Tate Gallery. She created around 500 sculptures in her lifetime. Martin, Ben Nicholson and the sculptor Naum Gabo, and designed by Hepworth and Sadie Martin.
Exhibition in Zurich at the Gimpel Hanover Galerie, November–January 1964. “A Hepworth hole is not only a connection between different kinds of form, or a way of giving space its own form — it is a relationship with the invisible.”. Barbara Hepworth was an English direct-carving pioneer and one of the most influential of modern sculptors — she's also the subject of Tuesday, August 25's Google Doodle. Artwork page for ‘Oval Sculpture (No. Abstract sculptural qualities are found in good sculpture of all time, but it is significant that contemporary sculpture and painting have become abstract in thought and concept. Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on January 10, 1903, in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Herbert Hepworth, a civil engineer who later became County Surveyor, and his wife, Gertrude.

You can unsubscribe at any time. BBC television film Barbara Hepworth directed by John Read. “When I first pierced a shape, I thought it was a miracle,” Hepworth said late in her life. 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It includes the work of Mondrian, Kandinsky, Arp, Giacometti, Miró, Calder, Moholy-Nagy, Hélion, Nicholson, Hepworth, Moore and Gabo and travels to Liverpool, Newcastle, London (Alex. Michael Shepherd's monograph, Barbara Hepworth, is published. She had a son, Paul, from her first marriage, and triplets, Rachel, Sarah and Simon, with her second husband. The couple was married in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio and lived in Rome until 1926, when Skeaping fell ill, according to Hepworth’s estate. Despite being penniless and living and working in one room, Nicholson and Hepworth became the king and queen of London’s modern art scene. But she wasn’t cold at all. Photograph by Hepworth, Hepworth's sculpture studio at 7 The Mall, Summer 1933. In France with Nicholson in April, Hepworth meets Brancusi at his studio in Paris, visits Arp's studio at Meudon (Arp himself is absent) and travels to Avignon and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence; on their return, they visit Picasso in his Paris studio. April, exhibition of paintings at the Lefevre Gallery, London. Photograph by Paul Schutzer, Hepworth working on the armature of the United Nations Single Form in the Palais de Danse, January 1963, Unveiling ceremony for Single Form, United Nations Secretariat, New York, 11 June 1964. William Gibson's Barbara Hepworth: Sculptress is published by Faber and Faber.