An in-depth and fully illustrated survey of Hepworth's drawings and oil paintings Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), to many the greatest female sculptor in the history of Western art, is widely considered to be one of the most important British artists of the 20th century and a key figure in the development of British modernism. He took up sculpture lessons with their friend, Barbara Hepworth. It was there that she met her fellow Yorkshireman, Henry Moore. One of the three trustees is Sir Alan Bowness, Art Historian, formerly Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute, past Director of the Tate Gallery in London and Director of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Over a two-year period, 1947–9, Hepworth produced around 80 works within the series.
As well as pencil, ink and chalk drawings, many were executed in both pencil and oil paint on board.With over 30 works on display, including Hepworth’s sketchbook, this exhibition was the most significant presentation of this extraordinary series to date. This series consists of 30 pencil and oil paintings and 30 or more drawings and sketches.

It is possible that a general anaesthetic utilising a mask and chloroform or similar agent was being used. She evolved her ideas and her work as an influential part of an ongoing conversation with many other important artists of her time, working crucially in areas of greater abstraction while creating three dimensional objects. In 1948 a large body of these sketches was exhibited at the Lefevre Gallery in London. Wednesday: 10am - 5pm Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings 27 Oct 2012 - 03 Feb 2013 This exhibition revealed the remarkable series of exquisite drawings and paintings made by Barbara Hepworth during the late 1940s, illustrating surgeons at work in operating theatres within post-war Britain.

The artist explains in her unpublished lecture delivered to an audience of surgeons in the early 1950s, shortly after she completed the series: “There is, it seems to me, a close affinity between the work and approach both of physicians and surgeons, and painters and sculptors.”The Hospital Drawings series should also be viewed in the context of the launch of Britain’s pioneering NHS in 1948. Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth. Thursday: 10am - 5pm Between April and May 1948 she painted six oil and pencil works on board which became The titles and location of the six paintings that constitute the Fenestration Series are set out in Table 1 (courtesy of J. Booth) where an excellent description of the Fenestration Series of paintings can be found in his article: The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Foundation (GPRWF) holds the first of the series The larger body of 64 plus orthopaedic paintings and drawings are similarly scattered around the world.

She kept the London house in Weymouth Street for their twice-yearly London visits that included the grouse-shooting season.Discussions had already commenced as early as 1962 between Barbara and surgeons in Australia to set up a memorial trust both to honour the name of her late husband, Garnett Passe, and also to assist struggling young surgeons and their families in gaining experience overseas.Rodney Williams died in 1984 and left much of his fortune to his widow Barbara. Hepworth used the homogeneity of theatre dress to veil the figure (and gender) and a green wash to blend dress and background.

A second nursing assistant watches on in the background.It was Sir Alan Bowness who suggested that it would be appropriate for There appears to be a mechanical arm with a right-angled extension coming up from the region of the patient’s chest that may be an obsolete method of fixing the gag. There are three other figures in the picture beside the patient.

He graduated from the University of Melbourne as a dentist but travelled to London in 1926 and finished a medical degree there. David Baxandale, Director of the National Gallery of Scotland, wrote in his introduction to the catalogue, As Paul Bowness, Hepworth’s grandson, has pointed outFurther, Paul Bowness states: “the operation drawings concentrate on the participants’ eyes and hands. The seated surgeon Garnett Passe, possibly wearing a head mirror, is looking into the pharynx of the patient who is in the Tonsillectomy position. Visitors discovered how drawing was an important means for Hepworth of exploring forms that influenced her practice as a sculptor.Impressed by the close connection she felt between her art and the skilled craftsmanship of the surgeon, Hepworth was particularly fascinated by the rhythmic movement of hands during the medical procedures unfolding before her. Provides an overview of Barbara Hepworth's impressive drawings executed between the 1920s and the 1960s and includes the popular hospital drawings of the late 1940s The author, a respected expert in the field, has had the full support of the artist's Estate in researching and writing the text Edward Roland Garnett Passe was an Australian ENT surgeon practising in London. He became an Otolaryngologist (ENT Surgeon) in the later 1920s and early 1930s and developed an early fascination with the surgery of deafness, particularly the disease otosclerosis.Hepworth and her artist husband had settled in St Ives, Cornwall in 1939 with the triplets immediately before the outbreak of war. Sarah was the third of the triplets born to Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson in Hampstead, London, in October 1934. Sunday: 10am - 5pm