BARBARA HEPWORTH

Barbara Hepworth: Mark Brown on the exhibition at the Tate Modern from 24^th June 2015. 

This is a brief summary of the article that was published in The Guardian of 20^th January 2015: ‘Out of the shadows and back in focus – display to highlight Barbara Hepworth’.  The author of the article is Mark Brown, Guardian Arts Correspondent.

Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth is one of Britain’s most important 20^th Century sculptors.  Hepworth has international significance, and a main aim of the show is to emphasise this.  Hepworth’s work Single Form is outside the United Nations building in New York.

More than 70 of Hepworth’s works will be brought together for the exhibition at the Tate Modern.   The show will include abstract carvings and bronzes, and photographs by Hepworth, including photographic collages and photograms.

Hepworth is often over-shadowed by Henry Moore, her contemporary: Hepworth’s work is more refined and more abstract than Moore’s.

Hepworth was born in Yorkshire.  During the Second World War she moved with her husband Ben Nicolson to Cornwall, where she remained for the rest of her life.  Hepworth died in a fire in 1975. 

After London, the exhibition will tour to the Netherlands and Germany.