Barbara Hepworth
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Barbara Hepworth
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/12/265
Related People: Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient); Barbara Hepworth Dame(Sender)
Creator(s): Hepworth, Barbara Dame (1903-1975)
Site Location(s): Created in - St Ives, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.2086, -5.4875 ); Created in - Blexleyheath, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom ( 51.4527, 0.128837 )
Date(s): 1965 - 1968
Size and medium: 25 letters
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/705057
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains 25 letters to Herbert Read from Barbara Hepworth.
The letters are chiefly filled with friendly concern for Read, good wishes for Ludo (Margaret Read), and talk about Hepworth's health. More briefly they refer to Tate business, Hepworth's own work and the work of others including Henry Moore.
In one letter, dated 30 August 1967 Hepworth takes Read to task for a recent book in which he has mentioned her. 'I was honoured in one way, but slightly aghast by your one ref to me Arp, Mondrian & Hepworth. Had you enlarged a little & put Arp, Mondrian, & today Hepworth & Philip King, I would not have felt as tho' I was dead already. You know that Ben, Henry, Naum & you & I were all equals & interwoven. My most recent large marbles & bronzes are my best & I just felt out of 1967 context - or that the 'boys' had prevailed over a woman!'
In her final letter to Read, written the week before his death, Hepworth acknowledges a debt to Read. She asks: 'please bask in the sun & spare yourself the burdens you have caried for all of us. You are so reticent that perhaps we do not dare to tell you how much we appreciate all you do.'
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Writing by Barbara Hepworth © Bowness.
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