- Title
- Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Ramsden and Eates about their differing views on sculpture
- Date
- [c.1950]
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Description
- Hepworth is refuting Ramsden's argument that her sculpture is too anthropomorphic and argues that all good sculpture is anthropomorphic and gives examples in her own work. Hepworth also discusses the importance of Ramsden's forthcoming book ('Sculpture: Theme and Variation') for the world of sculpture.
- 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 9310/1/1/65
