Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden

Letter from Barbara Hepworth about the choice of photographs for [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden’s article

In Tate Britain

View by appointment

Created by: Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
Recipient: Hartley Ramsden 1904 – 1993
Title: Letter from Barbara Hepworth about the choice of photographs for [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden’s article
Date: [c.April–May 1943]
Medium: Ink on paper
Description: The letter continues a discussion Ramsden and Hepworth have been having over the right images to accompany an article Ramsden is writing for 'Horizon' about Hepworth. Includes sketches to annotate Hepworth's ideas.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Letters from Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth as well as magazines and a file on modern sculpture and painting were presented to Tate Archive by Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden, May 1993 in order to assist with research for Tate's exhibition on Ben Nicholson. A further 10 boxes of personal papers were presented by Brian Griffin and Jennifer Spark, Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden's executors in 1995. A further two boxes and two box files of papers relating to Ramsden's writing was presented by her literary executor Angela Sutton in 1996.
Reference: TGA 9310/1/1/17