Copyright

This is a selective list of publications. A comprehensive bibliography up to 1996, compiled by Meg Duff, can be found in David Thistlewood (ed.), Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered, Liverpool University Press, 1996.

Catalogues of the sculpture

  • J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, with a catalogue of sculptures by Alan Bowness, London and Neuchâtel, 1961. Editions in English, French and German
  • Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960–69, London, 1971

Monographs

  • William Gibson, Barbara Hepworth: Sculptress, London, 1946
  • Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, with an introduction by Herbert Read and statements by the artist, London, 1952
  • Michael Shepherd, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1963
  • Barbara Hepworth, Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, with an introduction by Alan Bowness, London, 1966
  • A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1968, revised 1987 (Thames and Hudson)
  • Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial Autobiography, Bath, 1970; revised 1978 (now published by Tate Publishing)
  • Barbara Hepworth: a Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall, introduction by David Fraser Jenkins, London, 1982
  • Margaret Gardiner, Barbara Hepworth: a Memoir, Edinburgh, 1982; reprinted 1994
  • David Thistlewood (ed.), Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered, Liverpool, 1996
  • Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1998 (Tate Publishing)
  • Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, London, 1999 (Tate Publishing)
  • Miranda Phillips and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St Ives, London, 2002 (Tate Publishing)
  • Barbara Hepworth and the Yorkshire Landscape: An anthology of her writings and recollections, compiled by Sophie Bowness, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2003

Exhibition catalogues

For a full list of exhibition catalogues see Past exhibitions.

The following exhibition catalogues are particularly important:

  • Barbara Hepworth: Retrospective Exhibition 1927–1954, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1954
  • Barbara Hepworth, Tate Gallery, London, 1968
  • Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, by Penelope Curtis and Alan G. Wilkinson, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1994–5
  • Barbara Hepworth: Centenary, ed. by Chris Stephens, Tate St Ives and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2003

Films on Hepworth

1953

Figures in a Landscape: Cornwall and the Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, written, directed and photographed by Dudley Shaw Ashton for the British Film Institute. Words by Jacquetta Hawkes, spoken by Cecil Day Lewis. Music by Priaulx Rainier

1958

Why Cornwall? A programme in the BBC series Monitor, 14 August 1958, including Hepworth. A four minute extract can be viewed on the BBC Four website.

1961

Barbara Hepworth, directed by John Read for the BBC

1967

Barbara Hepworth, Westward TV, produced and directed by Derek Fairhead. Available, without the original musical soundtrack, on DVD from South West Film and Television Archive, Plymouth – www.tswfta.co.uk

1968

Barbara Hepworth at the Tate, made by the British Film Institute for the Arts Council of Great Britain, directed by Bruce Beresford. Filmed at Hepworth's Tate retrospective in 1968

2003

The Art of Barbara Hepworth, made by Illuminations. Available on DVD from www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

2003

Imagine: Barbara Hepworth, BBC1 film in the Imagine series

Many of these films can be viewed in the Tate Library.

Audio clips

1968 excerpt from Hepworth's voice-over to Barbara Hepworth at the Tate