Dame Barbara Hepworth: The True Rival to Picasso
6 min readJul 16, 2018
Like Picasso Hepworth changed art for ever…
Dame Barbara Hepworth and St Ives are inseparable, and there is absolutely no doubt that the Tate Gallery in St Ives could not have been built, or even the idea conceived, had she not decided to head for the town in 1939.
Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, on January 10th, 1903. Her…
