HEPWORTH, Barbara

Along with Henry Moore , Hepworth was one of the two premier British sculptors of the middle of the twentieth century. Their works were very similar: smooth, simple, biomorphic shapes that both artists frequently pierced through. Hepworth often ran parallel lines of strings through the center hole, giving her sculpture a further similarity to the works of Naum Gabo . The closeness to Moore is the most evident, but what Moore was to the figure, Hepworth was to landscape...