Barbra Hempworth
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BARBRA HEMPWORH
One of Britain's Most Important 20th Century Artists
DAME JOCELYN BARBRA HEMPWORH
- Born: Jan. 10, 1903 - Wakefield, Yorkshire
- Died: May 20, 1975 - St. Ives, Cornwall
- 1965 - made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Among England's earliest abstract sculptors
- Lyrical forms and feeling for material
SCHOOL
- At 15, decided to be a sculptor
- 1919 - Leeds School of Art
- Scholarship at Royal College of Art
Epidauros II
CAREER
- Earliest works were natualistic and simplified
- 1930 - sculpting entirely abstract
- 1933 - married Ben Nicholson
- 1930's and 40's - concentrated on mass and space
- 1950's - experimental series: Groups; commission of 20 ft high sculptures
Three figures from The Family of Man
MASS AND SPACE
- Open, hollowed out, perforated
- Interior space is as important as the surrounding mass
- Painted interior to heighten effect
- Accented and defined voids by stretching strings across the openings
"I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make abstract form and space quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism."
Sphere with Inner Form
Wave
Three Forms
Rosewall
BARBRA HEMPWORTH HOME AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
- Sculptures in bronze, stone, and wood
- Lived and worked in Trewyn Studios from 1949-1975
- Open air and space
- 1980 - studio and remaining work given to Tate Gallery
