- Title
- Letter from Barbara Hepworth disassociating herself with ‘Constructivist’ and ‘Constructive’ as terms
- Date
- [c.1945]
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Description
- Also mentions Barbara's thoughts on her own work and sculpture in general and mentions her difficulty in obtaining good materials. Particularly Hepworth mentions that she does not wish to be bound by a particular set of artistic rules so that she can break the rules if she wishes.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Letters from Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth as well as magazines and a file on modern sculpture and painting were presented to Tate Archive by Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden, May 1993 in order to assist with research for Tate's exhibition on Ben Nicholson. A further 10 boxes of personal papers were presented by Brian Griffin and Jennifer Spark, Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden's executors in 1995. A further two boxes and two box files of papers relating to Ramsden's writing was presented by her literary executor Angela Sutton in 1996.
- Reference
- TGA 9310/1/1/39
