biography
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Hepworth, Dame (Jocelyn) Barbara
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| female
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| lived:
| (1903–75)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. She studied at the Leeds School of Art (where she befriended Henry Moore, a fellow student), the Royal College of Art, and in Italy. She married, first, the sculptor John Skeaping (1901–80), then (1933) the painter Ben Nicholson, who had a strong influence on her work. She was one of the foremost nonfigurative sculptors of her time, notable for the strength and formal discipline of her carving (as in Contrapuntal Forms, exhibited at the Festival of Britain, 1951). Her representational paintings and drawings are of equal power. She was made a dame in 1965. |
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