Barbara Hepworth's to the full title was Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth, however she & universally referred to as Barbara. She exposed Art at Leeds School of Art (where she met & became friends by having Henry Moore), at the Royal College of Art, London, and around Italy.

One of her virtually all prestigious works was Lone Form (1961-1964), a memorial to the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, at the United Nations building in New York City.

Hepworth married a sculptor John Skeaping (1901-1980), and around 1933 became a 2nd married woman of the painter Ben Nicholson; they divorced around 1951. She was manufactured the Dame in 1965.

Hepworth died withinside the fire around her studio in St Ives, Cornwall. Her page & studio come currently a Barbara Hepworth Museum.

Hepworth's act may be seen inside St Ives at a Barbara Hepworth Museum, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton, West Yorkshire. Examples can besides become obtained at Churchill College and New Hall, Cambridge. Within London there is one at Kenwood House, and within Oxford Street one of her large sculptures is tied to the eastern wall of the John Lewis department store. the second sculpture is affixed to the outer wall of a tall professional building around St Martin's Lane near Covent Garden.

Selected list of works
*1928 Doves - Parian marble 1932-33 Seated Figure - lignum vitae 1933 Two Forms - alabaster and limestone 1934 Mother and Little one - Cumberland alabaster 1935 Three Forms - Serravezza marble 1936 Ball Plane and Hole - lignum vitae, mahogany and oak 1940 Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue & Red) - mixed media 1943 Oval Sculpture - cast material 1943-44 Wave - wood, paint and strings 1944 Landscape Sculpture - wood (cast around bronze in 1961) 1946 Pelagos - wood, paint and string 1946 Tides - wood and paintSea Form (Atlantic) 1964 1949 Operation: Case for Discussion - oil & pencil in pressed paperboard 1951 Group I (Concourse) February Four 1951 - Serravezza marble 1953 Hieroglyph - ancaster 1954-55 Two Figures - teak and paint 1955 Oval Sculpture (Delos) - scented guarea wood and paint 1955-56 Coré - bronze 1956 Orpheus (Maquette) (Version II) - brass & cloth string 1956 Stringed Figure (Curlew), Version II - brass and gauze string 1958 Cantate Domino - bronze 1958 Sea Form (Porthomeor) - bronze 1960 Figure for a Landscape - bronze 1960 Archaeon - bronze 1962-63 Bronze Form (Patmos) - bronze 1964 Rock Form (Porthcurno) - Bronze 1964 Sea Form (Atlantic) - bronze 1966 Figure in the Landscape - bronze in wooden base 1966 Four-Square Walk Across - bronze 1968 Two Figures - bronze 1970 Family of Man - bronze 1971 The Aegean Suite - series of prints 1971 Summer Dance - painted bronze 1972 Minoan Head - marble on wooden base 1972 Assembly of Sea Forms - white marble mounted on stainless steel base 1973 Conversation with Witching Stones - bronze

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