The stone-cold truth: Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore are not in the premier league

Leave St Ives’ star sculptor, and her Yorkshire counterpart Henry Moore, as the provincial powerhouses they are. To pretend they had international influence is just petty nationalism

The sculptor Barbara Hepworth died in harness, killed in a fire at her St Ives studio in 1975, when she was 72.

Today, the studio is a shrine to this dedicated artist, and you can see the last pieces of stone she was still working on when she died. Hepworth had real belief in craft. She was hands-on, right up to the end.

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