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

Sketchbooks, notebooks and working papers of the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

38 Objects
- Sketchbooks and Notebooks
  
  1 Object
- Writings, manuscripts and typescripts
  
  37 Objects

Title: Sketchbooks, notebooks and working papers of the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Date: 1930s–1975
Description: 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.
Reference: TGA 201518

38 objects in this collection

Showing 1–20 of 38 objects

Greek Sketchbook interleaved with pressed flowers and plants

Handwritten notes by Barbara Hepworth

Typescript of ‘Article in Unit One’

Extracts from the writing of Barbara Hepworth

Handwritten notes by Barbara Hepworth relating to art practice

Text titled ‘Barbara Hepworth’ by Barbara Hepworth, relating to art practice

Notes written in 1952, published in the monograph ‘Carvings and Drawings- Barbara Hepworth’

Typescript with extracts from ‘Carvings and Drawings’ containing annotations

Typescript of Barbara Hepworth’s talk at ‘Lecture and Surgeons’

‘Festival’s Spiritual Meaning Obscured’ by Barbara Hepworth

Material relating to Greece

Extract from Barbara Hepworth’s writing relating to abstract form

Letter from Barbara Hepworth to the Editor of ‘The Times’

Barbara Hepworth’s writing for the Holland Park Sculpture Exhibition catalogue in 1957

‘Statement’ by Barbara Hepworth

Material relating the publication ‘Cahiers d’Histoires Mondiales’

Handwritten text relating to landscapes and shapes

Statement relating to being an artist by Barbara Hepworth

Statement by Barbara Hepworth regarding world peace and society

Handwritten note and the typescript version of a text regarding world peace sent to John Russell

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