The Hepworth Wakefield
Gallery Walk
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 5AW
England
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The Hepworth Wakefield
01924 247360
The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire's major new art gallery opening in May 2011.
Designed by award-winning architect David Chipperfield, The Hepworth Wakefield will show a previously unseen collection of sculpture by Wakefield-born Barbara Hepworth, along with a nationally important collection of historical and modern art. As the third largest contemporary exhibition space outside London, The Hepworth Wakefield will bring the work of leading UK and international artists to Yorkshire through a changing programme of temporary exhibitions.
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Gallery
Gallery Walk
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 5AW
England
Website
For information about The Hepworth Wakefield, please visit
Telephone
The Hepworth Wakefield
01924 247360
The nationally important art collection previously housed at Wakefield Art Gallery will soon transfer to new, purpose-built gallery The Hepworth Wakefield. The collection features major works by locally-born sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore and many other leading British artists. It also includes the unique Gott collection of over 1,200 artists' views of Yorkshire, which will be shown publicly for the first time.
Collection details
Fine Art, Decorative and Applied Art, Architecture
Key artists and exhibits
- Barbara Hepworth
- Henry Moore
- James Tissot
- LS Lowry
- Roger Fry
- Duncan Grant
- Ben Nicholson
- Anthony Caro
- Walter Sickert
- Paul Nash
- Jacob Epstein
- Ivon Hitchens
- Graham Sutherland
- David Bomberg
- David Hockney
- John Piper
- Philip Reinagle
- Reclining Figure 1936
- Mother and Child 1934
- On the Thames 1849
- British modernism
- British art
Gallery Walk
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 5AW
England
Website
For information about The Hepworth Wakefield, please visit
Telephone
The Hepworth Wakefield
01924 247360
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