The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th centurysculptor's house and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there. The house itself is typical of the stone-built houses in St Ives. Her living room is furnished as she left it, while the workshop remains full of her tools and equipment, materials, and part-worked pieces. Hepworths Family of Man, Bronze, 1970 at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (January 10, 1903 – May 20, 1975), born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was one of the most important British artists of the 20th century. ... St Ives harbour and the local rescue lifeboat. ... Motto: Onen hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Population - Total (2004 est. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... An Italian Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA). ...
The sculptures featured at the museum (mainly in the beautifully secluded garden) are said to be some of her favourites. Her workshop also features a queue of uncut stones that one visitor has described as "still waiting for their moment in the shadow of her workshop".
Sadly, Barbara Hepworth died in a house fire in 1975 in the museum itself. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
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The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden by Miranda Phillips and Chris Stephens. Tate Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1854374125.
The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...
The BarbaraHepworthMuseum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th centurysculptor's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there.
The studio, known as Trewyn Studio, was purchased by Hepworth in 1949, and is typical of the stone-built houses in St Ives.
BarbaraHepworth died in a fire at this site in 1975, when she was aged 72.
Dame BarbaraHepworth DBE (January 10, 1903 – May 20, 1975), born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was one of the most important British artists of the 20th century.
Hepworth married the sculptor John Skeaping (1901-1980), and in 1933 became the second wife of the painter Ben Nicholson; they divorced in 1951.
Hepworth died in a fire in her studio in St Ives, Cornwall, aged 72.
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