Curved Form (Bryher)

Object Details

Artist

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

Provenance

Gimpel Fils, London, to September 4, 1961

JHH, NY, September 4, 1961 - May 17, 1966

Gift of JHH, 1966

Exhibition History

IBM Gallery, NY. "Five British Sculptors (Work and Talk)," 15 March - 9 April 1965, no. 16.

Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Connecticut. "Five British Sculptors: Armitage, Butler, Chadwick, Hepworth, and Moore," 5 - 28 March 1966.

Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina. "Modern Sculptors and Their Drawings: Selected Works from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 30 November 1977 - 22 January 1978, p. 31, ill. p. 30. Tour: Columbia Museum of Art, 5 February - 9 March 1978; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, 4 April - 14 May 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

Bowness, Alan. The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69 (New York and Washington, DC: Praeger, 1971) p. 31, no. 299.

McNichols, Mary. "Twentieth Century Sculptors and Their Drawings." The New Art Examiner 7/5 (February 1980) section 2, p. 5.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

(1961)

Accession Number

66.2446

Type

Sculpture

Medium

Bronze and string

Dimensions

22 X 11 X 4 3/8 IN. (55.9 X 28.0 X 11.0 CM.) WT: 35 LB. (15.8 KG.) INCL. BASE

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School

British Modernist Sculpture

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_66.2446

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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