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Photograph by Jim McLaughlin.
Three Forms (from the "Suite of 12 Lithographs by Barbara Hepworth")
Photograph by Jim McLaughlin.
Copyright held by Hepworth Estate. contact [email protected] 2010 contact Sophie Bowness, 14 AShchurch Grove,London, W12 9BT, [email protected]

Three Forms (from the "Suite of 12 Lithographs by Barbara Hepworth")

Artist Dame Barbara Hepworth British, 1903 - 1975
Printer The Curwen Studio British, 1863- present
Date1969
MediumLithograph, handmade wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 23 3/8 x 31 3/4 in. (59.4 x 80.6 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 28 x 33 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (71.1 x 85.1 x 3.8 cm)
Image Size: 18 × 23 3/4 in. (45.7 × 60.3 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineBequest to The Murray Collection in memory of Terry A. Murray
Object number2010.5.4
On View
Not on view
Collections
  • Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Works on Paper
SignedLR, outside the plate, in cursive pencil: "Barbara Hepworth"
InscribedLL, outside of image area, in pencil, cursive: "39/60"
MarkingsImpressed mark on lower left: block letters "CP" conjoined (to the left of the edition number) for Curwen Press or Curwen Prints. According to the Tate Gallery catalogue of their works by Hepworth, Stanley Jones of Curwen Studios started a 'pilot scheme' in a studio in St. Ives (Cornwall) in 1958 and in late 1968 spent 2 weeks working with Barbara Hepworth creating the suite of 12 lithographs to which this print belongs. Watermarked LR, "BH." According to the Tate's Hepworth's catalogue (see Bibilo), these prints were on handmade Barcham Green paper watermarked "BH."
DescriptionThree overlapping vertical forms, tall, narrow, bowl-like shapes each with a circle in the upper third. Orange ground with two pale blue rectangles in the upper left and right quadrants. At the bottom center a slightly larger rectangle is white with black and brown-grey brushstroke right-angled 'calligraphy,' Broad strokes of brown-black coloring in the upper left and lower fight of the composition.

Examined after unframed. JStokes 2/18/2010Exhibition History"What's New? Recent Acquisitions 2008-2010", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, March 3 - May 29, 2011.

"50 at 50: Five Decades of Collecting at the Hyde". Wood Gallery, Education Wing, Hyde House, The Hyde Collection. Glens Falls, January 16, 2013 -April 14, 2013

"Elemental: Marking Their Mark", Rotunda Gallery, April 11, 2015- June 21, 2015

"Women Modernists". Feibes & Schmitt Gallery, The Hyde Collection, January 19, 2019 - May 12, 2019ProvenanceCollection of Jane S. Murray, New York, NY; by bequest to The Hyde Collection 2009.