Twenty-three designs, notes and swatches for Sir Michael Tippett’s opera, ‘The Midsummer Marriage’, and two drawings for Sophocles’ ‘Electra’ at the Old Vic, 1950, by the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
[c.1950–77]
The material comprises twenty-three drawings, notes and swatches for 'The Midsummer Marriage', 1954-5, and 'Electra' at the Old Vic, 1950. The items are mostly designs for costumes (with one design appearing on the verso of a sheet), for characters in the opera such as Jennifer and Mark, 'He Ancient', 'She Ancient' and the Water Girls. In addition, there are designs for props such as the forms carried by Tree Presences as well as notes and diagrams relating to the mirror and bowl and the sticks and trumpets. The engineering of pieces is covered by notes about the wire bracing at the back of petals and their construction as well as the design for the torch. There are also colour swatches. The media used includes: pencil and coloured pencil, gouache, ink, fabric, and printed material all on paper.
- Collection Owner
- Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Estate of Barbara Hepworth 2015
- Reference
- TGA 20159
23 objects in this collection
- Title
- Twenty-three designs, notes and swatches for Sir Michael Tippett’s opera, ‘The Midsummer Marriage’, and two drawings for Sophocles’ ‘Electra’ at the Old Vic, 1950, by the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
- Date
- [c.1950–77]
- Description
- The material comprises twenty-three drawings, notes and swatches for 'The Midsummer Marriage', 1954-5, and 'Electra' at the Old Vic, 1950. The items are mostly designs for costumes (with one design appearing on the verso of a sheet), for characters in the opera such as Jennifer and Mark, 'He Ancient', 'She Ancient' and the Water Girls. In addition, there are designs for props such as the forms carried by Tree Presences as well as notes and diagrams relating to the mirror and bowl and the sticks and trumpets. The engineering of pieces is covered by notes about the wire bracing at the back of petals and their construction as well as the design for the torch. There are also colour swatches. The media used includes: pencil and coloured pencil, gouache, ink, fabric, and printed material all on paper.
- Reference
- TGA 20159
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Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume designs for two of the ‘Tree Presences’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume designs for two of the ‘Water Girls’ in the Act II
Dame Barbara Hepworth Sketches of forms to be carried by ‘Tree Presences’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume design for the character ‘Jenifer’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume design for ‘The He-Ancient’, Priest of the Temple
Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume design for ‘The She-Ancient’, Priestess of the Temple
Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume design for ‘Sosostris’, a Clairvoyant
Dame Barbara Hepworth Sketches of costumes designs of ‘Jenifer’ and ‘Mark’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume designs of ‘Jenifer’ and ‘Mark’ with a blue background
Dame Barbara Hepworth Sketches of costume designs for the ‘Tree Presences’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume designs for the ‘Tree Presences’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Costume designs for ‘Electra’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Designs for the ‘Tree Presences’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Notes and sketches of designs for a tripod
Dame Barbara Hepworth Sketches of leaf colours
Dame Barbara Hepworth Design of the construction of the back of the petals
Dame Barbara Hepworth Notes and design of the construction of the back of the petals
Dame Barbara Hepworth Designs for the petals titled ‘Leaf Viewings’
Dame Barbara Hepworth Notes and material samples for espadrilles
