(b Wakefield, 10 Jan 1903; d St Ives, 20 May 1975). English sculptor and draughtswoman. She trained as a sculptor at Leeds School of Art in 1919 and at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1920 to 1923, where she was associated with other artists from Leeds, including Henry Moore. Though she lost the 1924 Rome Scholarship to the English sculptor John Skeaping (1901–80), she was able to accompany him to Italy on a West Riding Scholarship, and they were married in 1925. They lived in the British School in Rome, where Skeaping consolidated his interest in carving in stone. His superior knowledge of direct carving must have been influential for Hepworth, for this practice had not been on the syllabus at art school.

• Hepworth, Barbara
  • England, §XV, 3: Art education, after 1920
  • Heritage
  • London, §III, 7: Art life and organization, after 1909
  • Nicholson: (3) Ben Nicholson
  • dealers
    • Jackson, Martha
  • groups and movements
    • Abstract art, §4: Concrete art and geometric abstraction, 1930–45
    • Abstraction-Création
    • Constructivism, §2: International
    • England, §III, 6: Painting and graphic arts, after c 1914
    • London Group
    • St Ives
    • 7 & 5 Society
    • Unit One
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    • Ede, Jim
    • Gregory, Eric
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    • Rothenstein, William
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    • Aluminium, §2(ii): Sculpture
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    • Lithography, §II, 2(ii)(c): Fine art developments, 20th century
    • Sculpture garden