Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture Records comprising photographs and notes compiled by the sculptor 1925-1975

Nicholson, Ben

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Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975

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Hepworth married names Skeaping, Nicholson, Dame (Jocelyn) Barbara, 1903-1975

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Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1903. She studied at Leeds College of Art in 1921 and at the RCA, 1921-24. In 1924-25 she lived in Italy, and married fellow sculptor, John Skeaping. In 1932 and 1933 she and Ben Nicholson (who then became her second husband) visited Picasso, Braque, Mondrian, Arp and Brancusi. She joined Abstraction-Création in 1933, was a member of Unit One and befriended Gabo when she and Nicholson moved to St. Ives at the outbreak of the Second World War. ...