THE ARTIST STUDIO RETROSPECTIVE

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Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden

Barnoon Hill, St.Ives, Cornwall

Barbara Hepworth married Ben Nicholson in 1938. When the war came they evacuated with their young family from Hampstead to Cornwall. The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden is based in the studio Hepworth established in 1949, in search of more space to work on her sculptures. Trewyn Studio remained her studio until her death in 1975. Here she explored the potential of bronze for the first time, as well as continuing her work with stone and wood carving. 'Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic,' Hepworth wrote, 'Here was a studio, a yard and a garden where I could work in open air and space.'

The studio was established as the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden a year after Hepworth's death in 1975, and has been managed by Tate since 1980.

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