#BarbaraHepworth was a British Modernist sculptor with a style described as "sensuous abstraction." Both she and Henry Moore pierced their organic forms with holes to integrate the works with the space around them. (Both pieces below are Hepworth's.)
As the music was mostly recorded over one weekend last November, and my lyrics are quite reflective, an autumn release for the #synthbraska LP seems apt. Some hashtag hints, for now, include: #Sheep #BarbaraHepworth #AHouseForEssex #GreekThomson #HenryMoore #Bilbao #Spireites #Causeways #CR78 #LoFi
For Women's History Month, the US National Museum of Women in the Arts asks "Can you name 5 women artists?" I will name 31, & you can, too.
For March 23: England's Barbara Hepworth. (2/2)
#WomensHistory #NMWA #BarbaraHepworth #Sculptor
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For Women's History Month, the US National Museum of Women in the Arts asks "Can you name 5 women artists?" I will name 31, & you can, too.
For March 23: England's Barbara Hepworth. (1/2)
#WomensHistory #NMWA #BarbaraHepworth #Sculptor
@artherstory.bsky.social
English artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth
Stringed Figure (Curlew) (Version I)
(brass sheet, strings, wood base, 1956)
#BarbaraHepworth #Sculpture
Charcoal sketch of an abstract sculpture of intertwined and rounded shapes
A loose charcoal sketch of oval lines surrounding a circular centre
Charcoal and pastel sketch of abstract, twisted, linear shapes
A portion of a small paper sculpture of twisted lines, held to create shadows behind
Celebrating the return of Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture; Oval Form (Trezion) to Abbot Hall Gallery. Charcoal sketches, paper models and drawings of #Flowing lines #BlueSkyArtShow #BarbaraHepworth
The sculpture was one of the first works completed by Hepworth after the birth of her triplets with Ben Nicholson in October 1934. It marks a point of departure in her style: her earlier abstract works are based on the human form, but Three Forms is more purely abstract, reduced to simple geometric shapes with little colour. Her subsequent work continued in a more formal, abstract and non-representational vein. Hepworth wrote in 1952 that she became "absorbed in the relationships in space, in size and texture and weight, as well as the tensions between forms".
Three Forms
Seravezza marble
1935
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
UK
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Barbara Hepworth works on “Curved Form, Bryher II” (1961)
Here's a wonderful article about the artist...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015...
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Barbara Hepworth, marble group, early 1950s. Light dances around and through translucent stone carved thin enough to glow. One figure rough like standing stones, the other polished smooth with a pierced opening.
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Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour and Strings, 1939/1961. Bronze cast from 1939 plaster, turquoise interior against warm patina. Strings radiating like tension between herself and the Cornish sea.
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Gister in Münster in het @Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso:
Sculptuur van #barbarahepworth en “karige maaltijd” van #picasso
English artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth
Orpheus (Maquette 2) (Version II, 1956)
(Copper alloy and cotton string on wooden base)
#BarbaraHepworth #Sculpture
English artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth
In her studio working on 'Single Form', 1961
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Good Afternoon
English artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth
Stringed Figure, 1966
(Oil and pencil on board)
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Stringed Figure (Curlew) (Version I)
brass sheet, strings, wood base
1956
Barbara Hepworth
(1903-1975, UK)
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Modern British Art Briefing 🇬🇧 From Lucian Freud’s drawings to the rise of St Ives modernists. Our latest report tracks the "flight to quality" in UK market and previews the critical March sales.
https://artgal.co.uk/modern-british-art-february-2026/
#ModBrit #LucianFreud #BarbaraHepworth #LondonArt
Pastel and acrylic painting shows red and yellow woman with magenta hair, blue lips, and golden eyes. She wears a red top. The background is a muted purple.
Portrait of Barbara Hepworth. Born in 1903, Hepworth was a British sculptor known for her abstract, feminine forms. #art #artsky #painting #painter #traditionalart #barbarahepworth
Black and white photo of Barbara Hepworth with sculpture.
On this day in 1903, Barbara Hepworth was born. A pioneer of modern sculpture, she reshaped British art with her abstract forms exploring space, landscape and the human body. #OnThisDay #BarbaraHepworth #WomensArt
Its textured surfaces are etched with three intersecting lines that reveal its assembly from seven separate cast pieces, a feature intentionally left visible to emphasise the work's internal balance and structural honesty.
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Born on this day in 1903 in Wakefield Barbara Hepworth.. here with her then husband Ben Nicholson & her four children including triplets. #BarbaraHepworth
"I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour."
⚒ #BarbaraHepworth, English abstract sculptor, was #BOTD 10 January 1903. #Art #Sculpture
Barbara Hepworth, The Family of Man, 1970. Bronze. Nine figures rising from Yorkshire hillside like ancient menhirs. Yorkshire a sculpture Park holds the only complete set in Europe.
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"Black and white photograph of three tall modernist sculptures standing in a field against a dramatic cloudy sky. Each sculpture consists of stacked geometric forms in dark material, featuring rectangular blocks with circular holes or voids cut through them. The sculptures vary in height and composition, creating a striking silhouette against the open landscape."
1/5 #Suffolk
This week a set from July's trip to Aldeburgh, starting with this shot on a gloomy day from #SnapeMaltings of #BarbaraHepworth 's Family of Man: Ancestor I, Ancestor II, and Parent I - one of her last works.
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Barbara Hepworth’s 1963 ‘Winged Figure’ looking otherworldly in the morning sun.
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Afternoon spent at @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social. Loved the simplicity of the stringing template and that the strings aren't equidistant.
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2pm TODAY on @SkyArts
Hepworth
The life and work of sculptor Barbara Hepworth, a pivotal figure in the British art world, with insight from experts, and artists that her work has influenced.
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Rare morning off so hit Pallant House Gallery for a couple of hours.
Completely blown away. Going back.
#pallanthousegallery #barbarahepworth #waltersickert #edwardburra #grahamsutherland #keithvaughan
