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: The Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 23 April-19 June 1981, no cat.
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
Date
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
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Link to Original Record
Record ID
hmsg_66.2437