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Artist & Exhibition Timelines
Take an in-depth look at significant periods in the lives of artists including Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Bill Brandt and Alina Szapocznikow.
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100 Years of Contemporary Art in Wakefield
Wakefield’s art collection was established in 1923 with the aim of nurturing an understanding of contemporary art and its relation to modern life – a collecting principle still followed by The Hepworth Wakefield today.
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Barbara Hepworth & the artists of St Ives
This timeline looks at a selection of paintings, prints and ceramics in Wakefield’s Art Collection made by artists Hepworth knew and worked with in Cornwall
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Bill Brandt / Henry Moore: In Detail
Brandt and Moore’s acclaimed ‘shelter pictures’ are the starting point for this timeline, which traces the intersecting careers of these two influential 20th-century artists.
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Alina Szapocznikow
The Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow produced a radical body of work in which she explored her own physicality during one of the most tumultuous periods in twentieth-century history.
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