View Barbara Hepworth Wooden Sculpture Images. Two heads (1932) pier art centre the british sculptress dame barbara hepworth is one of the greatest twentieth century sculptors and arguably the most significant female artist of the period. Hepworth investigated absence/presence in sculpture and played with the relationship of her sculptural forms to the larger spaces surrounding them.
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Barbara hepworth, sculptor whose works were among the earliest abstract sculptures produced in england. Hepworth herself created the sculpture garden, and requested that her work be displayed exactly as she placed it within the garden. Ives is now the barbara hepworth museum and sculpture garden, and is maintained by the tate gallery. A famous sculpture by barbara hepworth has been stolen by suspected scrap metal thieves from a park in south london.
