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Barbara Hepworth Biography
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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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| Selected 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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