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Sketchbooks, notebooks and working papers of the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

1930s–1975

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This small collection of material consists of notebooks, sketchbooks and various writings by Barbara Hepworth. The material ranges in date from the early 1930s through to Hepworth's death in 1975. It covers a variety of subjects, including a 1930s notebook containing quotations in Hepworth's hand on Christian Science, and a sketchbook used by Hepworth in Greece in 1954, containing drawings, notes, and pressed flowers, and a sketchbook used at the time of the Freedom of St Ives exhibition in 1968.

Collection Owner
Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Alan Bowness 2015
Reference
TGA 201518

38 objects in this collection

  • Sketchbooks, notebooks and working papers of the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

    38 Objects

    • Sketchbooks and Notebooks

      1 Object

    • Writings, manuscripts and typescripts

      37 Objects

Title
Sketchbooks, notebooks and working papers of the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Date
1930s–1975
Description
This small collection of material consists of notebooks, sketchbooks and various writings by Barbara Hepworth. The material ranges in date from the early 1930s through to Hepworth's death in 1975. It covers a variety of subjects, including a 1930s notebook containing quotations in Hepworth's hand on Christian Science, and a sketchbook used by Hepworth in Greece in 1954, containing drawings, notes, and pressed flowers, and a sketchbook used at the time of the Freedom of St Ives exhibition in 1968.
Reference
TGA 201518

Showing 1–20 of 38 objects

Dame Barbara Hepworth Greek Sketchbook interleaved with pressed flowers and plants

1954
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Handwritten notes by Barbara Hepworth

1938–9
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Typescript of ‘Article in Unit One’

[c.1934]
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Extracts from the writing of Barbara Hepworth

1934–52
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Handwritten notes by Barbara Hepworth relating to art practice

June 1947
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Text titled ‘Barbara Hepworth’ by Barbara Hepworth, relating to art practice

June 1947
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Notes written in 1952, published in the monograph ‘Carvings and Drawings- Barbara Hepworth’

1952–3
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Typescript with extracts from ‘Carvings and Drawings’ containing annotations

1952
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Typescript of Barbara Hepworth’s talk at ‘Lecture and Surgeons’

[1952]
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Dame Barbara Hepworth ‘Festival’s Spiritual Meaning Obscured’ by Barbara Hepworth

3 October 1953
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Material relating to Greece

1954–64
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Extract from Barbara Hepworth’s writing relating to abstract form

1956
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Letter from Barbara Hepworth to the Editor of ‘The Times’

24 January 1956
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Barbara Hepworth’s writing for the Holland Park Sculpture Exhibition catalogue in 1957

1957
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Dame Barbara Hepworth ‘Statement’ by Barbara Hepworth

2 January 1957
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Material relating the publication ‘Cahiers d’Histoires Mondiales’

[c.1957]
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Handwritten text relating to landscapes and shapes

[1958–9]
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Statement relating to being an artist by Barbara Hepworth

19 June 1959
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Statement by Barbara Hepworth regarding world peace and society

December 1959
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Handwritten note and the typescript version of a text regarding world peace sent to John Russell

December 1959
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