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Object Details

Artist

Barbara Hepworth, British, b. Wakefield, England, 1903–1975

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

1963

Accession Number

66.2437

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil and graphite pencil on board mounted on fiberboard

Dimensions

19 7/8 × 23 7/8 in. (50.5 × 60.6 cm)

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School

British Modernist Sculpture

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_66.2437

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

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