This Biography realtes to the preceding Essay Chapters:
Essay Front Page
- Introduction
- Cornwall
- Changing Influences
- Adapting Materials
- The Finale
- My Reaction
Biblography – Books and resources worth looking at on Barbara Hepworth
- Barbara Hepworth (World of art library, artists) -
A. M Hammacher 1987
- Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives -
Matthew Gale, Chris Stephens 2001
- Barbara Hepworth: Centenary -
Chris Stephens
- Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms -
Festing, Sally 1995 (a more biographical look at Hepworth and her work)
- A Retrospective
– Alan Wilkinson Penelope Curtis 1994-5
- Barbara Hepworth: A Memoir –
Margaret Gardiner 1982
- St. Ives 1883 - 1993: Portrait of an Art Colony -
Whybrow, Marion
- Imagine - Barbara Hepworth : shapes from feelings -
BBC television documentary, presented by A Yentob.
- British Pathe Online Archive -
Internet resource; some film footage of Hepworth working and her works at sculpture exhibitions, but best of all a short video of an 1973 interview of Hepworth speaking about her sculpture the Family of Man.
- BBC.co.uk -
website, the BBC have made available online radio interviews with various famous artists and thinkers including a Hepworth 1956 radio interview. Also available are a limited number of recent radio programmes on Her, worth using the search facility to find out more.
- Tate Online -
tate.org.uk, the online Tate gallery most useful for viewing images of the artist’s paper based works.
I have listed above some books and other resources. With the spread of new technology, the Internet can provide a useful. I have listed the three I found the most use - they are the ones that had the best resources. I was especially delighted to find the video of Hepworth talking about the Family of Man, as it gave a feel of how Hepworth herself talked and described her work.
Catalogues For Barbara Hepworth Exhibitions.
- Alley 1971, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Lithographs, Traveling Exhibition, Arts Council
- Alley, 1968, Barbara Hepworth The Tate Gallery 3 April - 19 May 1968, Lund-Humphries
- Bowness A / Tate 2005 : A Guide to the The Barbara Hepworth Museum And Sculpture Garden, Leaflet.
- Bowness S, 2001, Barbara Hepworth; Stone Sculpture Feb 10 - March 17 2001, Pace Widenlstein
- Bowness S, 2003, Barbara Hepworth and the Yorkshire Landscape, an anthology of her writings and recollections. Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2003
- Dore (Malborough NY), 1974, Barbara Hepworth - "Conversations", Malbrough NY
- Gimple 1963, Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture and Drawings at the Gimple Hanover Galerie Hanover Germany, Text in German,
- Gimple Fils 1971, Barbara Hepworth, March-April 1971 Gimple Gallery New York, Gimple & Weitzenhoffer Ltd New York,
- Hammacher 1972, The Family of Man Nine Bronzes and Recent Cavings, Malborough Old Bond St. London, cat 298
- Heron 1951, Barbara Hepworth Cavings and Drawings 1951 Festival of Britian, Wakefield City Art Gallery
- Kunsthalle Basel 1965, Rietveld paviljoen/Rijksmueum Kro¨ller-Mu¨ller/Otterlo, 8 May-18 July 1965
- Malborough-Gerson, 1965, Barbara Hepworth April - May 1966, London, Tollotsons
- Malbrough Galerie AG, 1975, Hepworth (Exhibition Catalogue), Malbrough Zurich.
- Marlborough - Godard 1973, Barbara Hepworth Carvings and Bronzes - May 1973 cat no 323, Toronto
- Merchant 1982, Barbara Hepworth Carvings , Marlborough, Jul-Aug 1982
- Miller 1985, Barbara Hepworth Early Life - May-July 1985 Wakefield City Art Gallery.
- Mullins, Barbara Hepworth Plymouth City Art Gallery 16 June -16 August 1970, Warne
- Read 1959, Hepworth- Galerie Chalette October November 1959
- Robertson 1962, Barbara Hepworth An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Rowe 2001, Barbara Hepworth November 9th 2001 - Jan 5th 2002, Robert Sandelson (Cork St), Robert Sandelson Ltd London.
- Stephens, 2003, Barbara Hepworth : Centenary, tate
- Wadley (Marlborough), 1979, Barbara Hepworth Carvings and Bronzes 1959-73
- Wilkinson & Curtis, 1994, Barbara Hepworth : A Retrospective, Tate
- Wilkinson 1996, Barbara Hepworth Sculptures from the Estate, Wildenstien New York
Other Catelogues and Group Exhibitions
- Gimpel Fils 1990, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, June-September 1990, London
- Havelock-Allan 1978, The Pier Gallery, Stromness Orkney, Lund- Humphries.
- Wilkinson, 2004, Within the Landscape ilust Grahm Murrell, Salisbury, BAS Ltd