Pendour, Plane wood with colour, 1947 (BH 145), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

This website has been set up by the Hepworth Estate and is designed to provide information on all aspects of the life and work of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth.

News

The Hepworth Wakefield is planned to open in Spring 2011 in the city where Hepworth was born. The Hepworth will be a new museum containing the gift of a unique collection of thirty working models in plaster and aluminium from the Hepworth Estate, alongside the existing collection of Wakefield Art Gallery which includes a particularly strong group of works by twentieth century British artists.

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Current and forthcoming exhibitions

The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, The Towner Eastbourne, 23 January–21 March 2010

David Chipperfield: Form Matters, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, A Coruña, Spain (previously at the Design Museum, London), 18 February–6 June

New Art Centre

The New Art Centre at Roche Court, near Salisbury, handles works for sale from the Hepworth Estate. For more information visit http://www.sculpture.uk.com

Catalogue Raisonné of Hepworth's sculptures

The Catalogue Raisonné of Hepworth's sculptures is currently being revised for publication under the direction of Dr Sophie Bowness of the Hepworth Estate. more...

Copyright requests

Copyright permission for reproduction of Hepworth's works and quotation from her writings must be obtained from sophie@barbarahepworth.org.uk
Please note that digital images cannot be supplied.