- Title
- Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Margot Eates and [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden commenting on her recent illness
- Date
- [November 1946]
- Medium
- Mixed media including ink and graphite on paper
- Description
- The letter also mentions the breakdown in relationship with the Gabos and mentions that the Queen (Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) visited her show and liked it. Enclosed is a letter to the Radio Times complaining that Eates' broadcast on modern sculpture ignored Eric Gill.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Letters from Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth as well as magazines and a file on modern sculpture and painting were presented to Tate Archive by Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden, May 1993 in order to assist with research for Tate's exhibition on Ben Nicholson. A further 10 boxes of personal papers were presented by Brian Griffin and Jennifer Spark, Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden's executors in 1995. A further two boxes and two box files of papers relating to Ramsden's writing was presented by her literary executor Angela Sutton in 1996.
- Reference
- TGA 9310/1/1/50
