Patrick Skene-Catling

How St Ives became Barbara Hepworth’s spiritual home

Though born in Yorkshire, the sculptor found lasting inspiration on the Cornish coast, where she lived from 1939 until her death in 1975

Barbara Hepworth with The Cosdon Head, 1949. The Hepworth Photograph Collection Courtesy Bowness. Photograph: Hans Wild
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