Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Margaret Gardiner

Letter sent by Barbara Hepworth to Margaret Gardiner

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Created by: Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
Recipient: Margaret Gardiner 1904–2005
Title: Letter sent by Barbara Hepworth to Margaret Gardiner
Date: [April] 1959
Medium: Ink on paper
Description: This letter sent by Barbara Hepworth to Margaret Gardiner concerns general news. Hepworth writes about her children visiting and how lovely it was even if she wishes she had been in better physical shape. She says 'I like solving things in stone woods and bronze but BN problems and financial and legal things get the better of me!'.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by Sir Alan Bowness, 2020
Reference: TGA 202016/69