Barbara hepworth brief biography of joel

          Hepworth was very prolific during her lifetime, creating nearly sculptures.

        1. Barbara Hepworth was a British sculptor, who was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in She was a leading figure in the international art scene.
        2. An accomplished carver, Barbara Hepworth was one of the first sculptors to abandon the convention of the single, unified sculptural form.
        3. Barbara Hepworth suddenly appeared in the twentieth century, as maternal and radical.
        4. Barbara Hepworth was a British sculptor, who was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in She was a leading figure in the international art scene throughout a.

          5. An accomplished carver, Barbara Hepworth was one of the first sculptors to abandon the convention of the single, unified sculptural form....

          Biography

          Life and Work by Alan Bowness is a comprehensive overview in 2,500 words

          Chronology

          1903

          Born 10 January in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest child of Herbert and Gertrude (née Johnson) Hepworth.

          Her father is a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 became County Surveyor. As a girl, Hepworth accompanies him on the car journeys he makes all over the West Riding of Yorkshire in the course of his work.

          1909–20

          Attends Wakefield Girls' High School.

          A look back at Dame Barbara Hepworth's life and career.

          Music scholarship, 1915. Open Scholarship, 1917. Summer holidays at Robin Hood's Bay, near Whitby, North Yorkshire.

          1920–21

          Leeds School of Art; Henry Moore is a fellow student.

          1921–24

          Studies sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London.

          Together with Moore and other students at the College, makes occasional trips to Paris. Awarded the diploma of the Royal College of Art in the summer of 1923; stays on an extra year to compete for the Prix de Rome (John Skeaping is the winner