Barbara Hepworth, British, b. Wakefield, England, 1903–1975 Search this
Medium:
Oil and graphite pencil on board mounted on fiberboard
Dimensions:
19 7/8 × 23 7/8 in. (50.5 × 60.6 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1963
Provenance:
Gimpel Hanover Gallery, Zurich, to January 14, 1964
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, Janurary 14, 1964 - May 17, 1966
Exhibition History:
Gimpel Hanover Galerie, Zurich. "Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings," November 16, 1963 - January 11, 1964.
IBM Gallery, NY. "Five British Sculptors," March 9 - April 13, 1965, no. 19.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin. "Sculptors and Their Drawings: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 4 October 1974-January 5, 1975, no. 7.
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina. "Modern Sculptors and Their Drawings: Selected Works from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," November 30, 1977 - January 22, 1978, p. 31; Tour: Columbia Museum of Art, SC, February 5 - March 9, 1978: Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, April 4 - May 14, 1978.
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1979-80. "Twentieth Century Sculptors and Their Drawings: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," no. 22, p. 53, ill. Tour: Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, 20 june - 19 August 1979; Columbus Museum and Science Center, GA, 22 September - 10 November 1979; Flint Institute of Art, MI, 15 December 1979 - 3 February 1980; Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Alaska, 3 May - 22 June 1980; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana, 26 July - 23 September 1980.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Barbara Hepworth from the Museum Collection," 23 April - 19 July 1981 (no catalog).
Published References:
Hepworth, Barbara. Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape (New York and Washington, DC: Praeger, 1967), p. 56.
McNichols, Mary. "Twentieth Century Sculptors and Their Drawings." New Art Examiner 7/5 (February 1980), sec. 2, p. 5.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 99, p. 116.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
