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When her triplets were born in 1934, Sculptress Barbara Hepworth laid aside her hammer and chisel for a whole month. Otherwise, domestic duties have rarely kept her from her work as an artist. As a result of this dedicated cultivation of her talents, Barbara Hepworth, now 51, is one of the world's top sculptors, and last week London's Whitechapel Art Gallery was having the biggest retrospective show of her work ever held...
Realm of Light. The retrospective show, covering 27 years of Sculptress Hepworth's work, provoked some murmurs of dismay from the critics. The Manchester Guardian complained that her carvings were "cold austerities [which do] not rouse any emotion much stronger than deep respect." But the Observer hailed the skill with which "she contrives to impart [life] to her obdurate materials." One thing that the show demonstrated clearly was that she has moved sharply away from her early preoccupation with natural forms toward a colder, more mathematical expression of idea and feeling. It also showed her close artistic affinity with...
...time, an experience which "helped to release all of my energies for an exploration of free sculptural form." She fell in love with the painter as well as the paintings, and three years later she and Nicholson were married. It was about this time in her career that Sculptress Hepworth began to put holes in her carvings: "I . . . felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space...
Although with Old Master John Constable and Painter-Sculptress Barbara Hepworth, Smith is one of three artists chosen to represent Britain in Venice's big biennial next June, he still is a little dubious of his success. When pressed, he quietly admits, "It's nice to feel one is still producing all right...
This week a Manhattan gallery opened a show of Barbara Hepworth's paintings, including 20 studies of the operating theater. In them, what the artist calls "the beauty and skill of the hands, every gesture perfectly related to the mind," the intent eyes of doctors and nurses peering over their tightly drawn masks, were caught in delicate pencil-lines, illuminated with eerie blues, greens and yellows...