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Biography |
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1903 |
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Born in Yorkshire |
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1903 |
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Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
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1920 - 1921 |
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Trained at Leeds School of Art |
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1921 - 1924 |
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Trained at the Royal College of Art in London |
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1925 |
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Married sculptor John Skeaping |
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1924 - 1926 |
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Lived and worked in Rome, Italy, with her first husband, the sculptor John Skeaping |
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1924 - 1926 |
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Studied at the British School, Rome, studied carving under Ardini |
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1926 |
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Hepworth and Skeaping returned to London and became involved with the London Group and the 7 & 5 Society, and became key figures in the new direct carving movement |
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1930 - 1933 |
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Met, and later married, Ben Nicholson. The two pioneered a move towards abstraction in, respectively, sculpture and painting. |
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1933 |
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Divorced sculptor John Skeaping |
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1933 - 1935 |
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worked with Abstraction-Creation group, Paris, and Unit One, London |
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1935 |
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Joined Astraction-Création and was also member of Unit One |
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1930 - 1936 |
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member, 7 x 5 Society, London |
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1936 |
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On the outbreak of World War II, moved to St Ives in Cornwall where she remained for the rest of her life |
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1936 |
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Married Ben Nicholson |
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1929 - 1939 |
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Lived in Hampstead, England |
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1939 - 1945 |
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owned and operated nursery school and market garden, St. Ives |
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1949 |
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co-founder, with Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach and others, Penwith Society of Arts, St. Ives |
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1951 |
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Divorced Ben Nicholson |
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1951 |
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Gold Medal, Hoffman Wood Trust, Leeds |
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1958 |
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Honorary member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1973 |
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1959 |
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Grand Prize, Bienal, São Paulo |
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1960 |
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Grand Prix, Prefecture des Alpes-Maritimes, Nice |
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1960 |
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Honorary degree University of Birmingham |
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1961 |
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Honorary degree University of Leeds |
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1963 |
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Foreign Minister's Award, Tokyo Biennal |
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1965 |
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Made a Dame of the British Empire |
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1966 |
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Honorary degree University of Exeter |
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1968 |
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Honorary degree Oxford University |
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1968 |
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Honorary fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford |
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1970 |
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Honorary degree London University |
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1970 |
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Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art London |
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1975 |
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Died in St. Ives, Cornwall, England |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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"Moore, Hepworth, Nicholson: A Nest of Gentle Artists in the 1930's" Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, England (group)
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, England (group)
"Marble" Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
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2008 |
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Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England (group)
"Modernism in St. Ives" Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall, England (group) |
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2006 |
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Hayward Gallery, London (group) |
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2006 |
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Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, France (solo) |
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2005 |
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Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London (solo) |
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2004 |
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Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (solo) |
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2003 |
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Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (group)
New Art Center, Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury
Wakefield Art Gallery
"Barbara Hepworth Centenary" Tate St. Ives and Yorkshire Sculpture Park (solo) |
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2002 |
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Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (group) |
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2001 - 2002 |
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New Art Center, Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury (solo) |
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2001 |
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"Barbara Hepworth: Stone Sculpture" Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
"Hepworth by the Sea," De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (solo) |
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1998 |
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Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (group) |
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1997 - 1998 |
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Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (group) |
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1996 |
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"Barbara Hepworth: Sculptures from the Estate" Wildenstein & Company, New York, NY (solo) |
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1994 - 1995 |
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Tate Gallery, Liverpool and travelling to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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1991 - 1992 |
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Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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1988 |
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"The Non-Objective World Revisited," Annely Juda Fine Art, London (group) |
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1987 - 1988 |
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Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (solo) |
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1985 |
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Elizabeth Exhibition Gallery, Wakefield, Yorkshire (solo) |
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1982 |
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Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo) |
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1980 |
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Yorkshire Sculptural Park, Breton Hall, near Wakefield (solo) |
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1979 |
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Marlborough Gallery, New York (solo)
Marlborough Gallery, London (solo) |
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1978 |
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Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels (toured Scotland) (solo) |
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1977 |
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Burleighfield International Arts Centre, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (solo) |
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1976 |
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh (solo) |
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1975 |
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Gimpel Fils, London (solo)
William Darby, London (solo)
Marlborough Gallery, Zurich (solo) |
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1973 |
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University of Exeter (solo) |
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1972 |
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Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
Gimpel Fils, London (solo) |
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1971 |
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University of Texas Art Museum, Austin (solo) |
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1970 |
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Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kyoto (solo)
Abbotsholme, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire (toured the U.K.) |
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1969 |
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Curwen Gallery, London (solo)
Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York (solo) |
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1968 |
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Tate Gallery, London (solo) |
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1966 |
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Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York (solo) |
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1965 |
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Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin (solo)
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands (toured Europe) (solo) |
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1964 |
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Moderna Museet, Stockholm (toured Scandinavia, 1964-65) (solo) |
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1963 |
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Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Zurich (solo) |
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1962 |
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (solo) |
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1961 |
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Gimpel Fils, London (solo) |
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1960 |
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Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich (solo) |
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1959 |
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Bienal, São Paulo (toured South America)
Galerie Chalette, New York (solo) |
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1958 |
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Gimpel Fils, London (solo)
Leeds City Art Gallery (solo) |
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1956 |
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Gimpel Fils, London (solo) |
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1955 |
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (toured the United States and Canada, 1955-56) (solo) |
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1954 |
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (solo)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (solo) |
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1952 |
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Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo) |
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1951 |
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Wakefield City Art Gallery, Yorkshire (travelled to the Manchester City Art Gallery) |
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1950 |
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Biennale, Venice (solo)
Penwith Society of Arts, St. Ives (with Ben Nicholson and Victor Pasmore)
Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo) |
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1949 |
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Durlacher Brothers, New York (solo) |
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1948 |
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Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo) |
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1946 |
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Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo) |
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1944 |
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Wakefield City Art Gallery, Yorkshire (travelled to the Bankfield Museum, Halifax) (solo) |
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1943 |
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Temple Newsam, Leeds (with Paul Nash) |
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1937 |
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Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (solo) |
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1933 |
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Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London (with Ben Nicholson) |
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1932 |
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Tooths Gallery, London (with Ben Nicholson) |
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1930 |
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Tooths Gallery, London (with John Skeaping) |
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1928 |
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Beaux Arts Gallery, London (with John Skeaping and William Norman) |
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