Figure for Landscape
Date
1960/(cast 1965)
Artist
Barbara Hepworth, British, b. Wakefield, England, 1903–1975
Provenance
JH purchased from The Artist, St. Ives, Cornwall, Through Gimpel Fils, London 16 June 1965
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 630, ill.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Barbara Hepworth from the Museum Collection," 23 April - 19 July 1981 (no catalog).
Published References
Alley, Ronald. Barbara Hepworth (London: Tate Gallery, 1968), p. 58.
Hammacher, A.M. The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968), p. 207.
Jacobs, Jay. "Collector: Joseph H. Hirshhorn," Art in America 57 (July - August 1969), ill. p. 9.
Hepworth, Barbara. A Pictorial Autobiography (New York and Washington, DC: Praeger, 1970), ill. 304, p. 110.
Jacobs, Jay. "Quality as Well as Quantity: Joseph H. Hirshhorn." The Collector in America (New York: Viking, 1971), color pl. p. 82.
Bowness, Alan. The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69 (New York and Washington, DC: Praeger, 1971), no. 287/2, p. 30.
Merillat, Herbert. Modern Sculpture: The New Old Masters (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1974) p. 113, ill. 2.
Lerner, Abram et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 702, ill. p. 435.
Valentien, Imke K. 'The Inspiration of the Studio." Museum International 191 (Vol 48, No. 3, 1996) p. 34, ill.
Fletcher, Valerie J. A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1998) pp. 60, 68, no. 38, ill.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 100, p. 117.
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School
British Modernist Sculpture
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), Plaza
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
66.2450
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
110 × 79 3/8 × 54 7/8 in. (279.4 × 201.6 × 139.4 cm)
