https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr en-us 2022-01-26 09:34:29 UTC 2024-10-19 01:34:55 UTC hello@padlet.com 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013270633 Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, the eldest child of three.]]> 2022-01-26 11:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013270633 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013278608 Hepworth first studied at Wakefields Girls Highschool, then Leeds school of art and then on to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art London.]]> 2022-01-26 11:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013278608 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013283306 Hepworth Marries sculptor John Skeaping in Florence, they move back to London due to Skeapings ill health]]> 2022-01-26 11:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013283306 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013297134 There first child John Skeaping was born on 3rd August. Meets Ben Nicholson and separates from Skeaping.]]> 2022-01-26 11:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013297134 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013305315 Exhibition of the Group Unit One
October 3rd 1934 Birth of 3 triplets
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquires its first Hepworth, Discs in Echelon (1935, darkwood)

]]> 2022-01-26 11:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013305315 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013312180 Exhibits in the Guggenheim Jeune just before the outbreak of the war
Hepworth and Nicholson move to St Ives Cornwall, there where cramped conditions and not much time to work, Hepworth worked at night not making anything major until 1943]]> 2022-01-26 11:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013312180 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013316426 Mall studio was Bombed destroying any work there
They move to a larger house with a studio for Hepworth
1943 first retrospective exhibition held in Leeds]]> 2022-01-26 11:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013316426 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013319081 Hepworth buys Trewyn Studio in St Ives, where she lives permanently from December 1950 until her death (it is now the Barbara Hepworth Museum, opened by her family in 1976 and since 1980 an outpost of the Tate Gallery)]]> 2022-01-26 11:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013319081 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013323745 The Tate Gallery acquires its first Hepworth sculpture, Bicentric Form, 1949.
Marriage to Ben Nicholson dissolved in October 1951
13 February 1953, death of son Paul in RAF plane crash over Thailand. Carves  Monolith (Empyrean) as a memorial to Paul and his navigator.]]> 2022-01-26 11:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013323745 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013330587 First one-person exhibition at Gimpel Fils in London in June. Begins to work in sheet metal and bronze.
Major bronze sculpture Meridian commissioned for State House, London in 1958]]> 2022-01-26 11:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013330587 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013333367 Acquires the Palais de Danse, a former cinema and dance hall, opposite Trewyn Studio for use as a workshop, especially for works to be cast in bronze, and as a store and display space.
BBC television film Barbara Hepworth directed by John Read.
Winged Figure is unveiled on the John Lewis department store, Oxford Street, London 1963]]> 2022-01-26 11:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013333367 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013336124 Made a Dame Commander of the British Empire. Appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery (until 1972), the first female trustee. Cancer of the tongue is diagnosed; Hepworth is treated at Westminster Hospital, London.]]> 2022-01-26 11:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013336124 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013340350 Breaks femur in Scilly Isles in June: this was to cause her lasting mobility problems.
1971 The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960–69, edited by Alan Bowness, is published. ]]> 2022-01-26 11:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013340350 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013344969 Hepworth celebrates her 70th birthday in St Ives. Elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, New York, in March–April]]> 2022-01-26 11:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013344969 40094367 https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013346463 20 May, Hepworth dies in an accidental fire at Trewyn Studio, aged 72.]]> 2022-01-26 11:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/40094367/yu59o04sk8v32pjr/wish/2013346463