A journey into the past
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on Sep 2, 2020
in Barbara Hepworth, Bill Brandt, Frederick George Poulson, Geoffrey Blundell Jones, Henry Moore, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wheldale Colliery
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In the later 1940s after the illness of their daughter Sarah, Barbara Hepworth and her husband, the artist Ben Nicholson, became friends with Norman Capener, the surgeon who had treated their child at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter. He invited her to witness a variety of surgical procedures and Hepworth produced a series […]