The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in
St IvesSt Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial...
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preserves the 20th century
sculptorSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and/or plastic material, sound, and/or text and or light, commonly stone , metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving; others are assembled, built together and fired, welded, molded,...
Barbara HepworthDame Barbara Hepworth DBE was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century...
's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there.
The studio, known as Trewyn Studio, was purchased by
Barbara HepworthDame Barbara Hepworth DBE was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century...
in 1949, and is typical of the stone-built houses in St Ives. Her living room is furnished as she left it, while the workshop remains full of her tools and equipment, materials, and part-worked pieces.
The sculptures featured at the museum (mainly in the secluded garden) were some of her favourites.
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The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in
St IvesSt Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial...
,
CornwallCornwall is a county of England in the United Kingdom, forming the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain. It is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Taken with the...
preserves the 20th century
sculptorSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and/or plastic material, sound, and/or text and or light, commonly stone , metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving; others are assembled, built together and fired, welded, molded,...
Barbara HepworthDame Barbara Hepworth DBE was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century...
's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there.
History
The studio, known as Trewyn Studio, was purchased by
Barbara HepworthDame Barbara Hepworth DBE was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century...
in 1949, and is typical of the stone-built houses in St Ives. Her living room is furnished as she left it, while the workshop remains full of her tools and equipment, materials, and part-worked pieces.
The sculptures featured at the museum (mainly in the secluded garden) were some of her favourites. Her workshop also includes a queue of uncut stones that one visitor has described as "still waiting for their moment in the shadow of her workshop".
She was helped in the creation of the garden by her friend, the South African-born composer
Priaulx RainierIvy Priaulx Rainier was a South African-British composer. Although she lived most of her life in England and died in France, her compositional style was strongly influenced by the African music remembered from her childhood. She never adopted 12-tone or serial techniques, but her music shows a...
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Barbara HepworthDame Barbara Hepworth DBE was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century...
died in a fire at this site in 1975, when she was aged 72.
The museum is managed by the
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gallery.
Books
- The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden by Miranda Phillips and Chris Stephens. Tate Publishing
Tate Publishing Ltd is a publisher of visual arts books, associated with the Tate Gallery in London, England. It was established in 1911; nowadays it is a division of Tate Enterprises, and is based at Tate, Millbank, London...
, 2002. ISBN 1-85437-412-5.
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