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

1930s–1975

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

38 objects in this collection

Showing 21–38 of 38 objects

Statement by Barbara Hepworth printed in ‘Moments of Vision’, including a letter sent to Frances McCann

Writings regarding the relationship of women to society

Handwritten notes and a typescript discussing Barbara Hepworth hands in relation to her work

Typescript of Barbara Hepworth’s statement relating to the choice of material for her sculptures

Writings relating to aesthetics

‘When I was in Greece and the Greek island’

‘Monitor’ extract from item on ‘Artists in Cornwall’

Statements by Barbara Hepworth

Extracts from Barbara Hepworth’s writing concerning politics

Transcripts of Barbara Hepworth’s talk presenting Herbert Read

Correspondence between Barbara Hepworth’s secretary and Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller

Typescript by Barbara Hepworth, titled ‘Notes on working method’, published by Methuen

‘Statement about the meaning of Chun for Professor Alan Edwards’

Typescript by Barbara Hepworth relating to her sculpture ‘Winged Figure’

Correspondence between Barbara Hepworth and The Editor of St. Ives ‘Times and Echo’

‘Michael Tippett A Symposium on his sixtieth birthday’ by Barbara Hepworth

‘Notes for xxth century art’ by Barbara Hepworth

‘The Artist speaks’ by Barbara Hepworth

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