Barbara Hepworth

               Barbara Hepworth was born on January 10, 1903 in Wakefield, England. She attended Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She moved to Italy in 1925 to learn to carve marble from sculptor Giovanni Ardini. After a year, she moved back to England to display her pieces. Hepworth was a large influence on the development of modern art and abstract sculptures. In her 1931 “Pierced Form”, she introduced the hole to modern British sculpture. Hepworth visited Paris, and in 1931 she joined the Abstration-Création movement. This movement counteracted the surrealist movement. She died in 1975 and her studio became the Barbara Hepworth Museum.