- Title
- Letter from Barbara Hepworth commenting on Ramsden’s opinions on ‘Pelagos’
- Date
- [c.February 1950]
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Description
- Ramsden considers Pelagos too anthropomorphic but Hepworth believes that all sculpture is anthropomorphic in origin. The letter also mentions Ramsden's upcoming book on sculpture ('Sculpture: Theme and Variation') and, in a margin note, mentions the death of Duncan [Macdonald of Lefevre's gallery].
- 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 9310/1/1/62
