Sketchbooks, notebooks and working papers of the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
1930s–1975
This small collection of material consists of notebooks, sketchbooks and various writings by Barbara Hepworth. The material ranges in date from the early 1930s through to Hepworth's death in 1975. It covers a variety of subjects, including a 1930s notebook containing quotations in Hepworth's hand on Christian Science, and a sketchbook used by Hepworth in Greece in 1954, containing drawings, notes, and pressed flowers, and a sketchbook used at the time of the Freedom of St Ives exhibition in 1968.
- Collection Owner
- Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Alan Bowness 2015
- Reference
- TGA 201518
38 objects in this collection
- Title
- Writings, manuscripts and typescripts
- Date
- 1930s–1975
- Description
- Includes statements, drafts and extracts pinned together with final versions of notes, recorded interviews for television and radio and miscellaneous documents including political papers.
- Reference
- TGA 201518/2
