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
- 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
Showing 1–20 of 38 objects
Dame Barbara Hepworth Greek Sketchbook interleaved with pressed flowers and plants
1954
Dame Barbara Hepworth Handwritten notes by Barbara Hepworth
1938–9
Dame Barbara Hepworth Typescript of ‘Article in Unit One’
[c.1934]
Dame Barbara Hepworth Extracts from the writing of Barbara Hepworth
1934–52
Dame Barbara Hepworth Handwritten notes by Barbara Hepworth relating to art practice
June 1947
Dame Barbara Hepworth Text titled ‘Barbara Hepworth’ by Barbara Hepworth, relating to art practice
June 1947
Dame Barbara Hepworth Notes written in 1952, published in the monograph ‘Carvings and Drawings- Barbara Hepworth’
1952–3
Dame Barbara Hepworth Typescript with extracts from ‘Carvings and Drawings’ containing annotations
1952
Dame Barbara Hepworth Typescript of Barbara Hepworth’s talk at ‘Lecture and Surgeons’
[1952]
Dame Barbara Hepworth ‘Festival’s Spiritual Meaning Obscured’ by Barbara Hepworth
3 October 1953
Dame Barbara Hepworth Material relating to Greece
1954–64
Dame Barbara Hepworth Extract from Barbara Hepworth’s writing relating to abstract form
1956
Dame Barbara Hepworth Letter from Barbara Hepworth to the Editor of ‘The Times’
24 January 1956
Dame Barbara Hepworth Barbara Hepworth’s writing for the Holland Park Sculpture Exhibition catalogue in 1957
1957
Dame Barbara Hepworth ‘Statement’ by Barbara Hepworth
2 January 1957
Dame Barbara Hepworth Material relating the publication ‘Cahiers d’Histoires Mondiales’
[c.1957]
Dame Barbara Hepworth Handwritten text relating to landscapes and shapes
[1958–9]
Dame Barbara Hepworth Statement relating to being an artist by Barbara Hepworth
19 June 1959
Dame Barbara Hepworth Statement by Barbara Hepworth regarding world peace and society
December 1959
Dame Barbara Hepworth Handwritten note and the typescript version of a text regarding world peace sent to John Russell
December 1959