Barbara Hepworth
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Born January 10 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, 1903
1920
Won a scholarship to Leeds School of Art where she first met Henry Moore who was also a student there
1921
Awarded a county major scholarship to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London
1923
Awarded the diploma of the Royal College of Art
1924
Visited Italy to study Romanesque and Early Renaissance sculpture and the technique of marble carving from master-carver Ardini
1926
Returned to London and set up studio in St. Ann's Terrace, St John's Wood
1927
Arranged an exhibition of carvings at the studio in St John's Wood
1928
First solo exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. Moved to Hampstead where she remained until 1939
1930
Holidays in Happisburgh, Norfolk, with husband John Skeaping, Henry Moore and the painter Ivon Hitchens
1931
Returns to Happisburgh on vacation with the Moores, Hitchens and second husband Ben Nicholson. Carves her first Pierced Form (Abstraction)
1932
Joint exhibition with Nicholson at Arthur Tooth & Sons' Gallery, London
1933
Visits Paris and St. Remy de Provence with Nicholson, where she met Picasso, Braque, Brancusi and Sophie Tauber-Arp. Then in Paris met Jean Helion, Mondrian and Brancusi again. Invited by Herbin and Helion to become a member of the Abstraction-Creation group
1934
Founding member of Unit One, London
1935
In Paris met Mondrian, Kandinsky and Naum Gabo. Work began on the book Circle
1936
Met Arp in London at the time of the International Surrealists exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired its first Hepworth
1937
Circle published
1938
Helped Mondrian to find a studio flat close to her and Nicholson in Hampstead
1939
On August 25 moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, a week before the outbreak of war. Naum Gabo moved to St. Ives at the same time
1942
Commissioned to draw for Kathleen Raines Stone and Flower Poems 1935-1943 Moved to a larger house in Curbis Bay with a studio and garden that Hepworth could work in
1943
First retrospective exhibition held at Temple Newsam, Leeds
1946
Invited by the London County Council in a limited competition to produce maquettes for four scuptures at the ends of Waterloo Bridge. First post-war solo show at Alex Reid & Lefevre, London
1947
First drawings of operating theatres
194 9
Bought Trewyn Studio, St. Ives, where she lived permanently from 1951 onwards when her marriage to Nicholson ended. Founder member of the Penwith Society of Arts, Cornwall
1950
Work shown at the 25th Biennale in Venice, Italy. The Tate Gallery, London, acquired its first Hepworth work
1951
Retrospective exhibition held in native town of Wakefield. Served on committee of second LCC open-air exhibition of sculpture, held in Battersea Park
1953
Awarded 2nd prize in Unknown Political Prisoner competition, organised by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Carved Monolith (Empyrean) for the London County Council, to be placed outside the Festival Hall on Londons South Bank
1958
Major retrospective exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1959
Exhibited in 5th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil
1962
Major retrospective exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Winged Figure commissioned by John Lewis Partnership Ltd., London
1963
Exhibited at 7th Biennale, Tokyo. Single Form commissioned by United Nations, New York
1964
Solo exhibition sponsored by The British Council tours Scandinavia
1965
Retrospective exhibition of sculpture and drawings at Rijjksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo
1966
Exhibited at 5th International Sculpture Exhibition at Sonsbeek. Diagnosed with cancer of the throat
1967
Major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London
1970
Awarded Grand Prix at Salon international de la femme, Nice. Made Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
1971
Arts Council travelling exhibition in Britain
1972
The Family Man exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art
1973
Open-air exhibition at Exeter University
1975
Died May 20, aged 72, in a fire at her studio in St. Ives
1976
Opening of the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives
Selected Solo Shows
1995
Retrospective, Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1994
Lithographs Made at Curwen Studio 1969 and 1971, Curwen Gallery, London
Gimpel Fils, London
1992
The Art Gallery of Ontario Collection, Toronto, toured throughout Canada
1988
Ten Sculptures 1951-1973, New Art Centre, London
1985
Early Life, Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield.
Late Carvings, Elizabethan Exhibition gallery, Wakefield
1983
A Sculptors Landscape 1934-1974, Swansea Art Gallery and Museum, travelled to Bangor, Wrexham and Isle of Man
1982
Carvings, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.
Storm King Art Centre, Mountainville, New York
1980
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Yorkshire
1979
Carvings and Bronzes, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1978
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
1977
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York
1976
Opening Exhibition, Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives
1975
Marlborough Gallery, Zurich.
William Darby Gallery, London
Gimpel Fils, London
1974
Conversations, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1973
Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto
1972
The Family Man, Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Gimpel Fils, London
1971
The Aegean Suite, Curwen Gallery, London
Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1970
Recent Work: Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
City Art Gallery, Plymouth
1969
Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer, New York
Twelve Lithographs, Curwen Gallery, London
1968
The Tate Gallery, London
1966
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York
Gimpel Fils, London
Beeldhouwwerken en tekeningen, Rijsmuseum Kroler-Muller, Otterlo, also toured Kunsthalle Basel; Galleria Civica dArte Modernam Turin, Karlsruhe and Essen
1965
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen. Organised by The British Council and travelled to Moderna Museet, Stolkholm; Ateneum, Helsinki; and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1964
Sculpture and Drawings, Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Zurich.
Sculpture and Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London
1963
Sculpture and Drawings, John Lewis Auditorium, London
1962
An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Abstract Form and Life: Sculpture and Biological Models, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast
1961
An Exhibition of Photographs of Sculpture and Drawings with some original Bronzes, British Council, London, travelled to Ceylon, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sarawak, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaya
Gimpel Fils, London
1960
British Council exhibition, travelled to V Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo; Comision National de Bella Artes, Montevideo; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Instituto de Arte Moderno, Santiago; and Museo de Bella Artes, Caracas
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich.
1920
Won a scholarship to Leeds School of Art where she first met Henry Moore who was also a student there
1921
Awarded a county major scholarship to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London
1923
Awarded the diploma of the Royal College of Art
1924
Visited Italy to study Romanesque and Early Renaissance sculpture and the technique of marble carving from master-carver Ardini
1926
Returned to London and set up studio in St. Ann's Terrace, St John's Wood
1927
Arranged an exhibition of carvings at the studio in St John's Wood
1928
First solo exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. Moved to Hampstead where she remained until 1939
1930
Holidays in Happisburgh, Norfolk, with husband John Skeaping, Henry Moore and the painter Ivon Hitchens
1931
Returns to Happisburgh on vacation with the Moores, Hitchens and second husband Ben Nicholson. Carves her first Pierced Form (Abstraction)
1932
Joint exhibition with Nicholson at Arthur Tooth & Sons' Gallery, London
1933
Visits Paris and St. Remy de Provence with Nicholson, where she met Picasso, Braque, Brancusi and Sophie Tauber-Arp. Then in Paris met Jean Helion, Mondrian and Brancusi again. Invited by Herbin and Helion to become a member of the Abstraction-Creation group
1934
Founding member of Unit One, London
1935
In Paris met Mondrian, Kandinsky and Naum Gabo. Work began on the book Circle
1936
Met Arp in London at the time of the International Surrealists exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired its first Hepworth
1937
Circle published
1938
Helped Mondrian to find a studio flat close to her and Nicholson in Hampstead
1939
On August 25 moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, a week before the outbreak of war. Naum Gabo moved to St. Ives at the same time
1942
Commissioned to draw for Kathleen Raines Stone and Flower Poems 1935-1943 Moved to a larger house in Curbis Bay with a studio and garden that Hepworth could work in
1943
First retrospective exhibition held at Temple Newsam, Leeds
1946
Invited by the London County Council in a limited competition to produce maquettes for four scuptures at the ends of Waterloo Bridge. First post-war solo show at Alex Reid & Lefevre, London
1947
First drawings of operating theatres
194 9
Bought Trewyn Studio, St. Ives, where she lived permanently from 1951 onwards when her marriage to Nicholson ended. Founder member of the Penwith Society of Arts, Cornwall
1950
Work shown at the 25th Biennale in Venice, Italy. The Tate Gallery, London, acquired its first Hepworth work
1951
Retrospective exhibition held in native town of Wakefield. Served on committee of second LCC open-air exhibition of sculpture, held in Battersea Park
1953
Awarded 2nd prize in Unknown Political Prisoner competition, organised by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Carved Monolith (Empyrean) for the London County Council, to be placed outside the Festival Hall on Londons South Bank
1958
Major retrospective exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1959
Exhibited in 5th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil
1962
Major retrospective exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Winged Figure commissioned by John Lewis Partnership Ltd., London
1963
Exhibited at 7th Biennale, Tokyo. Single Form commissioned by United Nations, New York
1964
Solo exhibition sponsored by The British Council tours Scandinavia
1965
Retrospective exhibition of sculpture and drawings at Rijjksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo
1966
Exhibited at 5th International Sculpture Exhibition at Sonsbeek. Diagnosed with cancer of the throat
1967
Major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London
1970
Awarded Grand Prix at Salon international de la femme, Nice. Made Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
1971
Arts Council travelling exhibition in Britain
1972
The Family Man exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art
1973
Open-air exhibition at Exeter University
1975
Died May 20, aged 72, in a fire at her studio in St. Ives
1976
Opening of the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives
Selected Solo Shows
1995
Retrospective, Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1994
Lithographs Made at Curwen Studio 1969 and 1971, Curwen Gallery, London
Gimpel Fils, London
1992
The Art Gallery of Ontario Collection, Toronto, toured throughout Canada
1988
Ten Sculptures 1951-1973, New Art Centre, London
1985
Early Life, Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield.
Late Carvings, Elizabethan Exhibition gallery, Wakefield
1983
A Sculptors Landscape 1934-1974, Swansea Art Gallery and Museum, travelled to Bangor, Wrexham and Isle of Man
1982
Carvings, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.
Storm King Art Centre, Mountainville, New York
1980
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Yorkshire
1979
Carvings and Bronzes, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1978
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
1977
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York
1976
Opening Exhibition, Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives
1975
Marlborough Gallery, Zurich.
William Darby Gallery, London
Gimpel Fils, London
1974
Conversations, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1973
Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto
1972
The Family Man, Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Gimpel Fils, London
1971
The Aegean Suite, Curwen Gallery, London
Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1970
Recent Work: Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
City Art Gallery, Plymouth
1969
Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer, New York
Twelve Lithographs, Curwen Gallery, London
1968
The Tate Gallery, London
1966
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York
Gimpel Fils, London
Beeldhouwwerken en tekeningen, Rijsmuseum Kroler-Muller, Otterlo, also toured Kunsthalle Basel; Galleria Civica dArte Modernam Turin, Karlsruhe and Essen
1965
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen. Organised by The British Council and travelled to Moderna Museet, Stolkholm; Ateneum, Helsinki; and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1964
Sculpture and Drawings, Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Zurich.
Sculpture and Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London
1963
Sculpture and Drawings, John Lewis Auditorium, London
1962
An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Abstract Form and Life: Sculpture and Biological Models, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast
1961
An Exhibition of Photographs of Sculpture and Drawings with some original Bronzes, British Council, London, travelled to Ceylon, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sarawak, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaya
Gimpel Fils, London
1960
British Council exhibition, travelled to V Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo; Comision National de Bella Artes, Montevideo; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Instituto de Arte Moderno, Santiago; and Museo de Bella Artes, Caracas
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich.
