Barbara Hepworth
Barbara HepworthImage:Hepworth_FamilyOfMan_1970.jpg|thumb|240px|Hepworth's ''Family of Man'', Bronze, 1970 at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park'''Dame Barbara Hepworth''' (January 10, 1903 – May 20, 1975), born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was one of the most important 20th Century Artists and British Artists of the 20th Century. She was certainly the pre-eminent of female United Kingdom|British sculptors. As great a sculptor as her friend and contemporary Henry Moore, if not quite as famous.
Barbara Hepworth's full name was Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth, but she was always known as Barbara. She studied Art at Leeds School of Art (where she met and became friends with Henry Moore), the Royal College of Art, London, and in Italy.
One of her most prestigious works was '''Single Form''' (1961-1964), a memorial to the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, at the United Nations building in New York City.
Hepworth married the sculptor John Skeaping (1901-1980), and later became the second wife of the painter Ben Nicholson. She was made a Dame in 1965.
Hepworth died in a fire in her studio in St Ives, Cornwall. Her home and studio have been made the Barbara Hepworth Museum.
Hepworth's work can be seen in St Ives at the Barbara Hepworth Museum, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton, West Yorkshire. Examples can also be found at Churchill College, Cambridge|Churchill College, Cambridge. In London there is one at Kenwood House, and in Oxford Street a large sculpture is attached to the eastern wall of the John Lewis Partnership|John Lewis department store; another sculpture is affixed to the outer wall of a tall office building in St Martin's Lane near Covent Garden.
==Selected list of works== Image:Churchill College, Hepworth.jpg|320px|thumb|right|''Four-Square Walk Through'' 1966. Churchill College, Cambridge|Churchill College features many examples of modern art, including two pieces by Hepworth
*1928 ''Doves'' - Parian marble
*1932-1933|33 ''Seated Figure'' - lignum vitae
*1933 ''Two Forms'' - alabaster and limestone
*1934 ''Mother and Child'' - Cumberland alabaster
*1935 ''Three Forms'' - Serravezza marble
*1936 ''Ball Plane and Hole'' - lignum vitae, mahogany and oak
*1940 ''Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red)'' - mixed media
*1943 ''Oval Sculpture'' - cast material
*1943-1944|44 ''Wave'' - wood, paint and strings
*1944 ''Landscape Sculpture'' - wood (cast in bronze in 1961)
*1946 ''Pelagos'' - wood, paint and string
*1946 ''Tides'' - wood and paintimage:Sea_Form_(Atlantic).jpg|right|thumb|''Sea Form (Atlantic)'' 1964
*1949 ''Operation: Case for Discussion'' - oil and pencil on pressed paperboard
*1951 ''Group I (Concourse) February 4 1951'' - Serravezza marble
*1953 ''Hieroglyph'' - ancaster
*1954-1955|55 ''Two Figures'' - teak and paint
*1955 ''Oval Sculpture (Delos)'' - scented guarea wood and paint
*1955-1956|56 ''Coré'' - bronze
*1956 ''Orpheus (Maquette) (Version II)'' - brass and cotton string
*1956 ''Stringed Figure (Curlew), Version II'' - brass and cotton string
*1958 ''Cantate Domino'' - bronze
*1958 ''Sea Form (Porthomeor)'' - bronze
*1960 ''Figure for a Landscape'' - bronze
*1960 ''Archaeon'' - bronze
*1962-1963|63 ''Bronze Form (Patmos)'' - bronze
*1964 ''Rock Form (Porthcurno)'' - Bronze
*1964 ''Sea Form (Atlantic)'' - bronze
*1966 ''Figure in a Landscape'' - bronze on wooden base
*1966 ''Four-Square Walk Through'' - 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 Magic Stones'' - bronze
Category:1903 births|Hepworth, Barbara
Category:1975 deaths|Hepworth, Barbara
Category:British sculptors|Hepworth, Barbara
