1941 barbara hepworth biography

Biography

Life and Work by Alan Bowness is a comprehensive overview in 2,500 words

Chronology

1903

Born 10 January in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest child of Herbert and Gertrude (née Johnson) Hepworth. Her father is a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 became County Surveyor.

As a girl, Hepworth accompanies him on the car journeys he makes all over the West Riding of Yorkshire in the course of his work.

1909–20

Attends Wakefield Girls' High School. Music scholarship, 1915.

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Open Scholarship, 1917. Summer holidays at Robin Hood's Bay, near Whitby, North Yorkshire.

1920–21

Leeds School of Art; Henry Moore is a fellow student.

1921–24

Studies sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. Together with Moore and other students at the College, makes occasional trips to Paris.

Awarded the diploma of the Royal College of Art in the summer of 1923; stays on an extra year to compete for the Prix de Rome (John Skeaping is the winner バーバラ・ヘップワース - Wikipedia CUDYF