WAKEFIELD, England — The sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born in the former mill town of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 1921, and it is at the Hepworth Wakefield, a gallery named in her honor, which was ...

Barbara Hepworth began working in bronze late and reluctantly. The British artist’s loyalty to wood and stone stemmed partly from her informal apprenticeship as a twenty-something in Italy under ...

I am constantly plagued by this little-woman attitude,” the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth told an interviewer in 1966. “There is a deep prejudice against women in art.” She had reason to be tetchy ...

Barbara Hepworth, “Pelagos” (1946), Sculpture Elm and strings on oak, 430 x 460 x 385 mm (Tate © Bowness) Barbara Hepworth in the Palais de la Danse studio, St ...

The former dance hall was bought by the sculptor in 1961 as her second studio Plans for the restoration of one of sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth's studios have been unveiled. Tate St Ives has revealed ...

A new exhibition that will explore a "short yet significant" period in Barbara Hepworth's life is set to open in St Albans this weekend. Barbara Hepworth: Artist in Society 1948-53 includes sculptures ...

She rose to international fame for her innovative sculptures, but without the support and encouragement of teachers at her Wakefield school, Barbara Hepworth's talent may never have developed. Did you ...

Barbara Hepworth's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 11,565,000 USD for sculptures, and 972,890 USD for decorative arts. In the past 12 months, her ...

Sculptor Barbara Hepworth is being celebrated with a Google Doodle today. The Yorkshire born artist arrived in St Ives on 25 August 1939, just days before the breakout of the Second World War. She ...

Ablack-and-white photo of the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, spread across two pages in Eleanor Clayton’s new biography of the artist, neatly sums up her place in the canon of 20th-century art.

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The art and life of Barbara Hepworth are celebrated in an expansive exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield. Yvette Huddleston reports. Pictures by Danny Lawson and Tony Johnson. Sophie Bowness, ...