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Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth. [2] Her father was a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 advanced to the role of county surveyor. [2]
Each one is inscribed Barbara Hepworth with the date 1969. [4] It is listed as BH 473 in Hepworth's catalogue raisonné. [5] In 1970, one of the casts of Three Obliques (Walk In) was exhibited in the second outdoor sculpture exhibition in Syon Park, London. The sculpture remained on display in the park until 1972. [6]
The Family of Man (BH 513) is a series of nine abstract sculptures (BH 513a to 513i) by the British artist Barbara Hepworth. Created as plaster models in 1970s, an edition of 4+2 (four castings of each individual figure, plus two complete sets) was cast by the Morris Singer foundry in 1972 and 1974. It was one of the last major works compeleted ...
1.13 Date unknown. 2 Births. ... January 10 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975) ... (some sources give his year of birth as 1893) June 29.
Contrapuntal Forms (BH 165) is a stone sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, one of her first public commissions, made in 1950–51 for the Festival of Britain and installed outside the Dome of Discovery on South Bank, London. [1] It was one of two Hepworth commissions for the festival: the other was an abstract rotating sculpture, Turning Forms (BH ...
The Family of Man: Figure 2, Ancestor II, or simply Ancestor II, is a 1970 bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, installed outside the Columbus Museum of Art, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The approximately 8-foot (2.4 m) sculpture has four cubes stacked on top of one another.
The first instance on record of Hepworth’s Two Figures theme was a wooden artwork from 1947-1948. Artworks done in this theme she considered to represent a relationship between two living things, as opposed to her solo figures which represent a human standing in a landscape.
Two Forms (Divided Circle) (BH 477) is a bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, designed in 1969. Six numbered copies were cast, plus one (0/6) retained by the sculptor. [ 2 ] The sculpture's dimensions are 237 centimetres (93 in) by 234 centimetres (92 in) by 54 centimetres (21 in).