Barbara Hepworth, Tibia Graft, 1949 Landscape attention to it declined following

attention to it declined following her unexpected death in 1996

Eleanor Clayton is curator at The Hepworth Wakefield and a Barbara Hepworth specialist

or adopting a communal rather than singular authorial voice

"I am very pleased to collaborate on this special print edition with The Hepworth Wakefield for the School Prints project and share this drawing which has been an important part of my process in realising The Source sculpture and garden

wash and iron inside out

Barbara Hepworth, Tibia Graft, 1949 Landscape attention to it declined followingIn 1947 Barbara Hepworth was invited to observe an operation at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital in Exeter by the surgeon Norman Capener, who had treated her daughter Sarah during a severe illness a few years earlier. Hepworth produced nearly 80 works as a result of subsequent visits to operating theatres in both Exeter and London. She was drawn to the craft of the surgeon in which she recognised so much of her own work as a sculptor. The work