Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Margaret Gardiner

Letter sent by Barbara Hepworth to Margaret Gardiner

December 1962–3

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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: December 1962–3
Medium: Ink on paper
Description: This letter sent by Barbara Hepworth to Margaret Gardiner concerns personal news. Hepworth writes about her son Simon's difficulties that he is facing as an artist and with a young family, she also writes about Nicholson's approach towards Simon and how she feels that he is isolating himself writing, 'the world does not measure up to his creative world so people are out'.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by Sir Alan Bowness, 2020
Reference: TGA 202016/72

Archive context

Letters from Barbara Hepworth to Margaret Gardiner TGA 202016 (80)
- Letter sent by Barbara Hepworth to Margaret Gardiner TGA 202016/72