TATE ST IVES. Barbara ... for modern art during the 1950s and 60s. 'Single Form (September)', a beautifully carved piece of polished walnut wood, highlights so many important aspects of ...

Since the Hepworth Wakefield art gallery opened in West Yorkshire in 2011, the small, indomitable figure of Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) has been inching into the limelight. The Tate’s ...

She used metals and casting techniques to make some of her largest sculptures. One was nearly six metres tall. Barbara Hepworth helped to create a new identity for modern British sculpture.

A sculpture by ... throughout the Second World War after she settled with her family in St Ives, Cornwall. Arts Minister Sir Chris Bryant said: “Dame Barbara Hepworth was a phenomenal artistic ...