Dame Barbara Hepworth Biography

She befriended a local surgeon and asked if she could sketch him at work in the operating theatre, putting down her chisel and taking up a pencil.

• Barbara Hepworth is a famous sculptor who played a large role in the artistic movement known as ‘modernism’. This was a new form of art came able in the late 1800s and continued through the 1900s.

• As a young artist, Hepworth was awarded several scholarships that allowed her to study at prestigious art schools and travel abroad. This was not common for women artists at the time.

• Barbara didn’t really do normal sculptures of people; she did different shapes and stylised sculptures. These are part of the modernist style.