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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Barbara Hepworth

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Barbara Hepworth
Age: 72 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 10
Died: 1975
Died: May 20
Artist
Drawer
Painter
Photographer
Sculptor
Mrs. John Rattenbury Skeaping
Dame Barbara Hepworth
Mrs. Ben Nicholson
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth
Barbara
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Barbara Hepworth Dame
Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth
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Grain
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