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Art we’ve helped buy at The Hepworth Wakefield

Collection of 40 works of ceramic, sculpture, paintings and works on paper
 Acquired
Wooded Landscape with Figures and Cattle
 Acquired 1955
Wandering Palm
 Acquired 2011
View of Wakefield
 Acquired 1969
View of Bougie, Algiers
 Acquired 1945
Vase of Flowers
 Acquired 1945
Upper Westgate, Wakefield, looking towards the Cathedral
 Acquired 1981
Untitled
 Acquired 2008
Untitled
 Acquired 2008
Two Women
 Acquired 2001
The Student: Homage to Picasso
 Acquired 1992
Study of Fruit and Flowers
 Acquired 2003
Still Life with White Bowl
 Acquired 1958
Pont des Arts, Paris
 Acquired 1953
Peggy Jean Asleep
 Acquired 1954
Pearlware jug
 Acquired 1985
Pair of Imari plates
 Acquired 1947
Near Harborne
 Acquired 1939
Miss Ethel Sands Descending the Staircase at Newington
 Acquired 1971
Landscape with Cottage
 Acquired 1939
Landscape with Cattle & panel of tiles
 Acquired 1952
Hepworth Family Gift
 Acquired 2010
Grayrigg Forest
 Acquired 1946
Genesis III
 Acquired 1979
French commode
 Acquired 1947
Fishermen at Work
 Acquired 1939
Du Maurier Bequest
 Acquired 1934
Drawings
 Acquired 1949
Cross for the White Birds
 Acquired 2008
Craig Goch
 Acquired 1939
Collection of Etchings
 Acquired 1939
Artist and his Wife
 Acquired 2001
Anemones
 Acquired 1945
A Well-head
 Acquired 1939
9 Drawings
 Acquired 2001
22.3.1969
 Acquired 2008
1) Autumn Ride No 2; 2) Study for Rainclouds No 2
 Acquired 2008

The Hepworth Family Gift, which forms a central part of the gallery's permanent collection, consists of 44 working models (surviving prototypes in plaster and aluminium from which editions of bronze were cast) including Winged Figure, 1961-2; five drawings made in 1925 and a large group of Hepworth's lithographs and screenprints. Also in the Gift is a group of works by artist friends formerly owned by Hepworth, including paintings by John Wells and Breon O'Casey and ceramics by Janet Leach.

David Hockney's etching The Student: Homage to Picasso, which was Art Funded in 1973, is the Yorkshire artist's official acknowledgement of the influence on his work of Picasso. In the picture, Hockney approaches the Spaniard, whose head is represented as a sculpture mounted on a column, in the manner of a student carrying his portfolio for inspection.

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Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield

Magdalene Odundo, Untitled, 1989

Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things

  • The Hepworth Wakefield
  • Until 2 June 2019
  • Free to all
Daniel Meadows, National Portrait (Three Boys and a Pigeon), 1974

Modern Nature

  • The Hepworth Wakefield
  • Until 22 April 2019
  • Free to all

Image credits

1 . French commode

© The Hepworth Wakefield

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