The Unofficial Barbara Hepworth Resource Site
Catalogue of Works |
Essay:
"The interaction between people and the landscape as a basis for sculpture. |
Barbara Hepworth : Late Works
Catalogue raisonee of final works. |
Barbara Hepworth was a Sculptor whose career spanned five decades from scholarships in Italy and first exhibitions in the 1920's to large-scale commissions and international exhibitions in the 1960's and 1970's.
Lots of literature has been produced on Hepworth, her sculpture and thoughts. I have studied many of these and looked at Hepworth's work in some depth and have written an Essay entitled " Barbara Hepworth: The interaction between people and the landscape as a basis for sculpture ". Which can be found By Clicking here.
During these 50 years she produced numerous drawings and paintings to accompany about 600 sculptures, 579 of which her estate has catalogued. Often when reading older texts about Hepworth's work one comes across reference to different works, some of which may be hard to find further infomation(either because they exist in private collections, or have been lost or destroyed). This Website aims to create a point of reference, with links to sources of further infomation and where possible images that cover most of the known Her known works. All of which have been presented with their names dates and "Barbara Hepworth archive numbers" (these are often denoted by a BH in front of a number, in catalogues or books of Hepworth sculpture).
Due to the size and number of sculptures, the catalogue has been split into five sections representing each decade of her career. Please note that not all sculptures listed have
I would like to point out that this Website does not own copyright for any of the images (copy right would probably belong to Her estate, although no permissions have been sought) although many are freely available by searching on the Internet. This is not to be used for professional research by any commercial or professional organisation, As the accuracy of the index can not be guaranteed. Please only use this for personal research and do not re publish images onto other sites, or quote us as a source. Many have been edited to suit the format of the site and may be low quality because of this.