short biography

Barbara Hepworth (b. 1903, Wakefield/UK; d. 1975, St Ives/UK) was a sculptor. She created Constructivist sculptures. In 1933 she became a member of the Abstraction-Création group, and in 1935 she edited the journal Circle International Survey of Constructivist Art together with Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo, and Kenneth Martin. In 1950 she participated in the Venice Biennale, and in documenta 1 and 2 in Kassel in 1955 and 1959. She was married to the painter Ben Nicholson.

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Abbot Hall Art Gallery Arts Council Collection, London Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton Block Museum of Art, Evanston British Council Visual Arts, London Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Cantor Arts Center, Stanford Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston Contemporary Art Society, London Courtauld, London Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit Falmouth Art Gallery Gemeentemuseum Helmond Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Henry Moore Institute Leeds Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe Indianapolis Museum of Art Jerwood Space, London Kettle´s Yard, Cambridge / UK ° Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Kunstmuseum Den Haag Leeds Art Gallery MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo . MUSMA Matera Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Monsoon Art Collection, London Museum Würth, Künzelsau Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City New Art Centre, Salisbury Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Oklahoma City Museum of Art Palm Springs Art Museum Phoenix Art Museum Rugby Museum and Art Gallery Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt San Diego Museum of Art Storm King Art Center Tate St Ives The Hepworth Wakefield The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The Whitworth, Manchester Vancouver Art Gallery Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
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