Who was Barbara Hepworth?
Sculptor. Date and Place of Birth: 12th June 1903, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. Family Background: The daughter of a County Surveyor. Education: Wins a Scholarship to Leeds School of Art. Royal College of Art, London. Chronology/Biography of Dame Barbara Hepworth: 1920: Meets Henry Moore at Leeds School of Art. 1921: Moves on to the Royal Academy of Art in London. 1924: After graduating she moves to Florence to study Romanesque and early Renaissance Sculpture with her new husband John Skeaping. Moves on from Florence to Rome. 1926: Returns to London. 1928: Holds her first one person exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London. Moves to Parkhill Road, Hempstead, London. 1932: Meets to artist Ben Nicholson and joined the “Seven and Five SOciety of Artists”. Produces her first pierced form sculpture. 1933: Becomes a member of the Abstraction-Creation Association. and of the “British Unit One Group”. 1934: Birth of triplets. 1935: By now all her work is abstract with the renewed influ
