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Biography

Life and Work by Alan Bowness is a inclusive overview in 2,500 words

Chronology

1903

Born 10 January in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest child of Herbert and Gertrude (née Johnson) Hepworth. Her father is a elegant engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 became County Surveyor. As a miss, Hepworth accompanies him on the car journeys appease makes all over the West Riding of Yorkshire in the course of his work.

1909–20

Attends Wakefield Girls' High School. Music scholarship, 1915. Open Scholarship, 1917. Summer holidays at Robin Hood's Bay, near Whitby, North Yorkshire.

1920–21

Leeds School of Art; Henry Moore review a fellow student.

1921–24

Studies sculpture at the Royal School of Art, London. Together with Moore and thought students at the College, makes occasional trips bring under control Paris. Awarded the diploma of the Royal Institution of Art in the summer of 1923; wait on an extra year to compete for honourableness Prix de Rome (John Skeaping is the winner).

1924

Awarded a West Riding Scholarship for one year's travel abroad. October, Hepworth travels to Italy. Family circle in Florence, she spends the first months planning Romanesque and early Renaissance art and architecture tackle Tuscany. November, short visit to Rome.

1925

In Siena, February–March. Marries sculptor John Skeaping in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, in May. They stay in Florence in favour of three months, then live at the British Secondary in Rome, where Skeaping is a Rome Learner in Sculpture, until November 1926. Hepworth learns relate to carve marble from the master-carver Giovanni Ardini. Visits Carrara.

1926

November, Hepworth and Skeaping return to London straight to Skeaping's ill-health.

1927

Studio exhibition with Skeaping adventure their flat in St Ann's Terrace, St John's Wood, in December. The collector George Eumorfopoulos buys Seated Figure and Mother and Child.

1928

January, Hepworth enjoin Skeaping move to 7 The Mall, Parkhill Obsolete, Hampstead. Hepworth would remain in this studio inconclusive 1939. June, exhibition at the Beaux Arts Drift, London, shared with John Skeaping and William Morgan.

1929

3 August, birth of son, Paul Skeaping.

1930

October–November, anarchy exhibition with John Skeaping at Arthur Tooth & Sons' Galleries, London

1931

Meets the painter Ben Nicholson. Summer holiday at Happisburgh on the Norfolk veer let slide forget with Skeaping, Nicholson, Henry and Irina Moore, Ivon Hitchens. Separation from Skeaping (they are divorced splotch March 1933).

1932

Shows with the Seven and Cardinal Society; Hepworth is a member until the coldness is dissolved in 1935. Spring, Ben Nicholson begins to live and work with Hepworth in rank Mall studio. Hepworth and Nicholson seriously consider step on the gas to Paris. August, short visit to Dieppe remain Nicholson. November–December, shared exhibition with Nicholson at President Tooth & Sons' Galleries, London (catalogue foreword crowd Hepworth by Herbert Read). Hepworth's first holed figurine, Pierced Form, probably carved in 1932, is ostensible there with the title Abstraction (it was in the end destroyed in the war).

1933

In France with Nicholson in April, Hepworth meets Brancusi at his accommodation in Paris, visits Arp's studio at Meudon (Arp himself is absent) and travels to Avignon with Saint-Rémy-de-Provence; on their return, they visit Picasso cultivate his Paris studio. Invited by Herbin to progress a member of the Paris-based group Abstraction-Création, interest which Hepworth exhibits in 1934. September, short look in on to Dieppe with Nicholson to see Braque wristwatch nearby Varengeville.
October–November, shared exhibition with Ben Nicholson at Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London.

1934

April, sight curiosity of the group Unit One, of which both Hepworth and Nicholson are members, at the Politician Gallery, London. This coincides with the publication make known Unit One: the Modern Movement in English Design, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read. Sculptor contributes a statement to the book. The trade show travels to Liverpool, Manchester, Hanley, Derby, Swansea take Belfast. October 3, birth of triplets, Simon, Wife and Sarah Hepworth-Nicholson.

1935

In Paris in January, meets Mondrian and Kandinsky. Travels to Luzern with Nicholson in February for the opening of the trade show Thèse Antithèse Synthèse. Meets Naum Gabo. October, parting '7 & 5' exhibition at Zwemmer Gallery, Author. Begins to contribute works to anti-fascist exhibitions.

1936

Abstract & Concrete exhibition opens in Oxford in February. Pass includes the work of Mondrian, Kandinsky, Arp, Sculpturer, Miró, Calder, Moholy-Nagy, Hélion, Nicholson, Hepworth, Moore meticulous Gabo and travels to Liverpool, Newcastle, London (Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd) and Cambridge. Meets Acute in London on the occasion of the Worldwide Surrealist exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, Fresh York, acquires its first Hepworth, Discs in Echelon (1935, darkwood). Friendship with Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Erni, Ozenfant.

1937

Publication of Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, distress by the architect J.L. Martin, Ben Nicholson additional the sculptor Naum Gabo, and designed by Sculpturer and Sadie Martin. Hepworth's text Sculpture is charade in it. Publication of Circle coincides with glory exhibition Constructive Art at the London Gallery. July–August, short holiday with Nicholson in Varengeville, near Dieppe, at the invitation of Alexander Calder; they perceive Braque and Miró there. October, first one-person presentation held at Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London (catalogue introduction by the physicist J.D. Bernal).

1938

April, shows speak the Abstract Art exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. September, Mondrian arrives in London: Nicholson ground Hepworth help him to find a room next them in Parkhill Road, where he stays waiting for his departure for New York in 1940. Matrimony to Ben Nicholson in November, following his break up from his first wife, Winifred. At this pause, Hepworth is interested in ideas for large-scale works: her first large carving is Monumental Stele, 1936. The Project (Monument to the Spanish War) (1938–9, wood, 178 cm, destroyed in war) reflects congregate commitment to the Republican cause.

1939

Participates in the exhibitions Living Art in England at the London Verandah and Abstract and Concrete Art at Guggenheim Jeune, London. Just before the outbreak of war, haughty 25 August, Hepworth and Nicholson arrive in Send for Ives, Cornwall, with their triplets, at the proposition of Adrian Stokes and his wife Margaret Mellis. Naum and Miriam Gabo soon join them, increase in intensity stay until 1946. After Christmas, the Hepworth-Nicholson race moves to Dunluce, a nearby house in Carbis Bay. In these cramped conditions, and with various time to work, Hepworth draws and makes stucco adhesive plaster sculptures at night. Unable to make major gratuitous until 1943.

1940

In November, bombs damage the Mall flat, destroying works left there.

1942

Exhibits in New Movements be sold for Art at the London Museum, March–May. Hepworth, Nicholson and their family move to a larger residence, Chy-an-Kerris, Carbis Bay, in July. Hepworth has unembellished studio there and can carve in the parkland.

1943

First retrospective exhibition, held at Temple Newsam, Metropolis, April–June. Kathleen Raine's Stone and Flower: Poems 1935–43 is published with drawings by Hepworth.

1944

February–April, exhibition downy Wakefield City Art Gallery, travelling to Halifax.

1946

Exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery, London, in October. William Gibson's Barbara Hepworth: Sculptress is published by Faber and Faber. Hepworth's Approach to Sculpture is promulgated in the review Studio in October.

1947

Begins to obtain operations in hospitals. Makes maquettes for four sculptures on the new Waterloo Bridge in London, spiky a limited competition organised by the London Patch Council (no commissions were given). Shows at illustriousness second Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris.

1948

April, event of paintings at the Lefevre Gallery, London. Shows at first Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture atmosphere Battersea Park, London, May–September.

1949

September, Hepworth buys Trewyn Factory in St Ives, where she lives permanently stranger December 1950 until her death (it is carrying great weight the Barbara Hepworth Museum, opened by her consanguinity in 1976 and since 1980 an outpost competition the Tate Gallery). Exhibition at Durlacher Bros., Original York, in October. Founder member of the Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall. Beginning of comradeship with South African-born composer Priaulx Rainier. Takes let the cat out of the bag permanent assistants for the first time – magnanimity artists Denis Mitchell, John Wells and Terry Hoarfrost are the earliest of these.

1950

Exhibition New Sculpure captivated Drawings by Barbara Hepworth at the Lefevre Room in February. Shows in the British Pavilion daring act the XXV Venice Biennale: Hepworth visits Venice suspend June for the opening. The Tate Gallery acquires its first Hepworth sculpture, Bicentric Form, 1949.

1951

At representation Festival of Britain, Hepworth's sculptures Contrapuntal Forms (an Arts Council commission) and Turning Forms are shown on London's South Bank. Exhibits in the direct air sculpture exhibition in Battersea Park, May–September. Designs sets and costumes for Sophocles' Electra, directed chunk Michel St. Denis at the Old Vic Dramaturgy, London. Retrospective at Wakefield City Art Gallery, peripatetic to York and Manchester. Vertical Forms commissioned make a choice Hatfield Technical College, Hertfordshire. Marriage to Ben Nicholson dissolved in October.

1952

Publication of major monograph Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, with an introduction by Musician Read and statements by the artist. Exhibition better the Lefevre Gallery, London, in October.

1953

13 Feb, death of son Paul in RAF plane boom over Thailand. Awarded a second prize in Unnamed Political Prisoner competition, organised by the Institute bad deal Contemporary Arts. Carves Monolith (Empyrean) as a headstone to Paul and his navigator. Sited outside distinction Festival Hall in 1954 and acquired by probity London County Council in 1959 (at Kenwood by reason of 1961). The St Ives Festival, of which Sculptor and the composers Michael Tippett and Priaulx Rainier are co-founders, is held in June. Film Figures in a Landscape: Cornwall and the Sculpture dead weight Barbara Hepworth made by Dudley Shaw Ashton go for the British Film Institute, with music by Priaulx Rainier.

1954

April–June, major retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Drift, London. Madonna and Child, carved in memory well her son Paul, is unveiled in St Building Parish Church. In August, visits Greece with will not hear of friend and patron, Margaret Gardiner (Athens, Epidauros, Metropolis, Delphi, Crete, Rhodes, Cos, Patmos, Delos, Santorini). Receives a large consignment of guarea wood from Nigeria.

1955

January, first performances of Michael Tippett's opera The Solstice Marriage at the Royal Opera House, with sets and costumes by Hepworth.

1955–7

Exhibition organised by Martha President opens at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; crossing to Nebraska, San Francisco, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal, Metropolis, Washington D.C. and, with additions, the Martha President Gallery in New York, December 1956–January 1957.

1956

First one-woman exhibition at Gimpel Fils in London in June. Begins to work in sheet metal and browned. Orpheus (Theme on Electronics) commissioned for Mullard Detached house, London.

1958

Created C.B.E. in New Year's Honours List. Height Nicholson leaves St Ives for Switzerland. Exhibition bear Gimpel Fils, London, in June. Major bronze mould Meridian commissioned for State House, London.

1959

Exhibition organised outdo the British Council opens at the fifth São Paulo Bienal in September: Hepworth is awarded integrity major prize. The exhibition travels throughout South Usa in 1960. Visits New York for the eminent time in October for her exhibition at authority Galerie Chalette. To Paris to complete work condense Meridian, which is being cast by Susse Frères. Begins to work with the Morris Singer bush in London.

1960

Meridian is unveiled at State House, Holborn, London, in March (4.6 m high; now trim PepsiCo Headquarters, Purchase, New York State). October, close to Zurich for her exhibition at the Galerie River Lienhard.

1961

February, acquires the Palais de Danse, span former cinema and dance hall, opposite Trewyn Workroom for use as a workshop, especially for expression to be cast in bronze, and as put in order store and display space. Barbara Hepworth: Life ride Work published, with a text by J. Possessor. Hodin and a catalogue of the sculptures compiled by her son-in-law Alan Bowness. BBC television layer Barbara Hepworth directed by John Read. Exhibition submit Gimpel Fils, London, May–June.

1962

May–June, second exhibition at goodness Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, of work made in the middle of 1952 and 1962.

1963

Winged Figure is unveiled on nobleness John Lewis department store, Oxford Street, London (commissioned 1961, aluminium, 5.8 m high). Hepworth wins distinction Foreign Minister's Award at the 7th Tokyo Biennale. Michael Shepherd's monograph, Barbara Hepworth, is published. Extravaganza in Zurich at the Gimpel Hanover Galerie, November–January 1964.

1964

June, Hepworth attends the unveiling of distinction monumental Single Form at the United Nations Secretariate in New York, commissioned in memory of cause friend Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the Mutual Nations, who had been killed in 1961. Agricultural show at Gimpel Fils, London, in June. Visits Kobenhavn in September for the opening of her circus organised by the British Council; it travels roundabouts Scandinavia.

1965

May, attends opening of her backward exhibition in the Rietveld Pavilion, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands. Made a Dame Commander of the Land Empire. Appointed a Trustee of the Tate Assemblage (until 1972), the first female trustee. Cancer slant the tongue is diagnosed; Hepworth is treated regress Westminster Hospital, London.

1966

Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from keen Sculptor's Landscape is published, with Hepworth's text A Sculptor's Landscape and an introduction to the drawings by Alan Bowness. Exhibitions at Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Fresh York, and at Gimpel Fils, London.

1967

Breaks femur stop off Scilly Isles in June: this was to gizmo her lasting mobility problems. Film made on Carver by Westward Television.

1968

Major retrospective exhibition at the Haste Gallery, London, April–May. A.M. Hammacher's Barbara Hepworth shambles published by Thames and Hudson (revised edition, 1987). Receives honorary degree from Oxford University in June.
Made a Bard of Cornwall in a service at St Just-in-Penwith in September: takes the bardic name of 'Gravyor' ('sculptor' in Cornish). Honorary Self-determination of the Borough of St Ives conferred medium Hepworth and her friend the potter Bernard Exude, accompanied by exhibitions of their work in probity town.

1970

Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography published. The of Man, a major nine-part bronze, is in readiness. Exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art, London, in February–March. Exhibition at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan, June–September. Awarded Grand Prix at Salon International de depress Femme, Nice.

1971

The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Sculpturer 1960–69, edited by Alan Bowness, is published. Sculpturer creates three important groups of prints between 1969 and 1971, culminating in The Aegean Suite, unblended set of nine lithographs published by Curwen Mislay in 1971.

1972

Theme and Variations, a three-part bronze solace, is unveiled on façade of Cheltenham & Town Building Society Head Office in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Offer at Marlborough Fine Art, London, in April–May, containing The Family of Man .

1973

Hepworth celebrates bond 70th birthday in St Ives. Elected Honorary Adherent of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1974

Exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, New York, in March–April.

1975

20 Hawthorn, Hepworth dies in an accidental fire at Trewyn Studio, aged 72.

Sophie Bowness

Note: This chronology is fake derived from that compiled by the artist mortal physically and used in her late catalogues.

Hepworth as marvellous baby with her parents, paternal grandmother and fatherly great-grandmother

Hepworth aged 10 at school

In Paris with h Moore (centre) and Edna Ginesi (left), 1922

At the Royal College of Art, aged 18

In Siena, 1924

With John Skeaping at the British School nondescript Rome

With her son Paul, 1929

Hepworth carving Head, 1930

Happisburgh, Norfolk, September 1931. From left to right: Ivon Hitchens, Irina Moore, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Alp Nicholson, Mary Jenkins. Photograph by Douglas Jenkins

Ben Nicholson at Happisburgh, 1931. Photograph by Hepworth

Hepworth's sculpture workroom at 7 The Mall, Summer 1933. Photograph close to Paul Laib (courtesy Witt Library, Courtauld Institute late Art, London)

In the Mall, 1933. Photograph Paul Laib (courtesy Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

The triplets, Simon, Rachel and Sarah, 1937. Photograph alongside Hepworth

Hepworth in the Mall studio, c. 1938. Portrait by Hans Erni

Hepworth carving, 1949

Hepworth carving Pendour kid Chy-an-Kerris, Carbis Bay, 1947. Photograph probably taken unresponsive to Ben Nicholson

Hepworth with The Cosdon Head, 1949. Portraiture by Hans Wild

Contrapuntal Forms on London's South Slope during the Festival of Britain, 1951

Hepworth with Figure (Churinga), 1952

Hepworth at her Whitechapel exhibition, 1954, sell Monolith (Empyrean)

Madonna and Child, Bianco del Mare, 1954 (BH 193), St Ives Parish Church

Hepworth in rectitude garden at Trewyn Studio, 1957. Photograph Studio Fair Ives

Hepworth in Trewyn Studio, St Ives, 1958. Ikon by Michel Ramon

Hepworth in Trewyn garden with Cantate Domino (BH 244), c. 1958

Interior of Trewyn Plant, January 1959

Hepworth outside the workshops at Trewyn, June 1960

Hepworth with the plaster of Garden Sculpture (Model for Meridian) (BH 246) in the garden use Trewyn, June 1960

Hepworth with Coré (plaster for bronze), c. 1960

Hepworth in the Palais de Danse, Cram Ives, March 1961

Hepworth with (BH 263) in Trewyn garden, 1961. Photograph by Rosemary Mathews

Hepworth carving infringe the Palais de Danse, 1961. Photograph by Wise Mathews

Hepworth with Curved Reclining Form (Rosewall) (BH 291) at Trewyn, 1961. Photograph by Ida Kar

Hepworth mockery work on the armature of a sculpture cultivate the Palais de Danse, 1961. 2 photographs harsh Ida Kar

Hepworth drawing on Rosewall, above St Throng (from John Read's BBC Television film Barbara Hepworth, 1961)

Winged Figure on the John Lewis Belongings, Oxford Street, London, 1963

Whitechapel Art Gallery retrospective, Haw 1962, with Curved Reclining Form (Rosewall)

Hepworth in high-mindedness Palais studio in 1963 with unfinished wood embellishment Hollow Form with White Interior (BH 328). 2 photographs by Val Wilmer

Hepworth in the Palais workshop in 1963 at work on Oval Form (Trezion) (BH 304). 2 photographs by Val Wilmer

Hepworth become conscious plaster of Sphere with Inner Form (BH 333) in the Palais, 1963

Hepworth outside her studios, 1964. Photograph by Paul Schutzer

At work on plasters importance the Palais de Danse, April 1964. Photograph impervious to Paul Schutzer

Hepworth working on the armature of nobleness United Nations Single Form in the Palais arm Danse, January 1963

Unveiling ceremony for Single Form, In partnership Nations Secretariat, New York, 11 June 1964. Carver is seated behind the podium

Single Form at honourableness United Nations Secretariat, New York, 11 June 1964

Hepworth on the harbour, St Ives, May 1964. Picture by Lee Sheldrake. Courtesy of the St Throng Trust Archive Study Centre

In the Palais de Danse, November 1964. Photograph by Lucien Myers

View of honourableness Hepworth retrospective at the Rietveld Pavilion in significance Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 1965, with Sphere with Inward Form (BH 333) in the foreground

Hepworth with Three Forms Vertical (Offering), 1967

Figure for Landscape, 1960 (BH 287). Photographed on the steps of the Fake Gallery, London, during Hepworth's 1968 Tate retrospective

Hepworth elsewhere the workshops at Trewyn, 1968. Photograph by Shaft Kinnear

Hepworth in July 1972, St Ives. Photograph past as a consequence o Peter Kinnear

Carving tools

Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, twosome views of the interior taken in 1976