Barbara Hepworth

This is a selective list of publications. A comprehensive bibliography up to 1996, compiled by Meg Duff, can be found in David Thistlewood (ed.), Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered, Liverpool University Press, 1996.

Catalogues of the sculpture

• J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, with a catalogue of sculptures by Alan Bowness, London and Neuchâtel, 1961. Editions in English, French and German
• Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960–69, London, 1971

Tate Archive's set of Hepworth's sculpture records (1925–75) can be viewed here

Monographs

• William Gibson, Barbara Hepworth: Sculptress, London, 1946
• Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, with an introduction by Herbert Read and statements by the artist, London, 1952
• Michael Shepherd, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1963
• Barbara Hepworth, Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, with an introduction by Alan Bowness, London, 1966
• A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1968, revised 1987 (Thames and Hudson)
• Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial Autobiography, Bath, 1970; revised 1978 (now published by Tate Publishing)
• Barbara Hepworth: a Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall, introduction by David Fraser Jenkins, London, 1982
• Margaret Gardiner, Barbara Hepworth: a Memoir, Edinburgh, 1982; reprinted 1994
• David Thistlewood (ed.), Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered, Liverpool, 1996
• Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1998; revised 2013 (Tate Publishing)
• Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, London, 1999 (Tate Publishing)
• Miranda Phillips and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St Ives, London, 2002 (Tate Publishing)

• Barbara Hepworth and the Yorkshire Landscape: An anthology of her writings and recollections, compiled by Sophie Bowness, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2003
• Sophie Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters, with essays by Frances Guy, Gordon Watson, David Chipperfield, Sophie Bowness and Jackie Heuman, together with a complete catalogue of the plasters and a preface by Simon Wallis, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington VT, 2011 (Lund Humphries)
• Nathaniel Hepburn, Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings, London, 2012 (Tate Publishing). A comprehensive account of this series of works made by Hepworth in 1947-9, derived from observation in operating theatres in Exeter and London
• Alan Wilkinson, The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth, Farnham and Burlington, VT, 2015 (Lund Humphries)
• Sophie Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: Writings and Conversations, London, 2015 (Tate Publishing)
• Sophie Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio, London, 2017 (Tate Publishing)

Exhibition catalogues

For a full list of exhibition catalogues see Past exhibitions.

The following exhibition catalogues are particularly important:

• Barbara Hepworth: Retrospective Exhibition 1927–1954, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1954
• Barbara Hepworth, Tate Gallery, London, 1968
• Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, by Penelope Curtis and Alan G. Wilkinson, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1994–5
• Barbara Hepworth: Centenary, ed. by Chris Stephens, Tate St Ives and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2003
• Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World, ed. by Penelope Curtis and Chris Stephens, Tate Britain, London, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, and Arp Museum, Rolandseck, Germany, 2015–16