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Biography of Barbara Hepworth
Name: Barbara Hepworth
Birth Date: January 10, 1903
Death Date: May 20, 1975
Place of Birth: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: sculptor
Barbara Hepworth
English sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) has been called one of the outstanding women artists of the twentieth century. Throughout her working life and until her death, she never received the recognition of male contemporaries such as another--and more famous--British sculptor, Henry Moore. Comparing the two, art critic Leslie Judd Portner, in Washington Post and Times Herald, noted that "Where Moore concerns himself with natural forms, Hepworth's work is almost entirely abstract."Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, on Jan. 10, 1903, Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was the eldest of four children. As a young girl, she often traveled about the Yorkshire countryside with her father for his work as county surveyor. She spoke of Yorkshire as a "curiously rhythmic patterning of cobbled streets...most ungracious houses dominated by...slagheaps, noise, dirt, and smell." These early impressions of the contradiction between industrial town and quiet countryside later became an integral part of her work.…showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died on May 20, 1975, in a tragic fire in her home at St. Ives, Cornwall. The house is now a museum and features many of her works.An artist who never received the level of attention given to her male contemporaries, Hepworth strongly felt that women artists could contribute greatly to an understanding of the visual arts. "Perhaps especially," she said, "in sculpture, for there is a whole range of formal perception belonging to feminine experience." Further Reading For Barbara Hepworth's work, see her own publications: Carvings and Drawings (1952), Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape (1966), and A Pictorial Autobiography (1970); A good introduction to her work is A. M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth (1968); J. P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth (1961), contains a biography and an analysis of the development and style of the artist; See also: Who's Who in Art (1956);Encyclopedia Americana(Vols. 10,14, 1996
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