Curved Form (Bryher)

Date
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.
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School
British Modernist Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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