Barbara Hepworth Museum

The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and lawn much as they had been when she lived and worked there. She bought the web page in 1949 and lived and labored there for 26 years until her death in a fire on the premises in 1975. The studio, referred to as Trewyn Studio, turned into bought via Barbara Hepworth in 1949, and is regular of the stone-constructed homes in St Ives.

Her living room is furnished as she left it, whilst the workshop stays full of her tools and equipment, materials, and component-labored pieces. The museum turned into opened through her circle of relatives in 1976, after Barbara had left instructions to this impact in her will. It is the biggest series of her works which can be on everlasting display. The sculptures featured on the museum had been a number of her favourites. Her workshop additionally consists of a queue of uncut stones that one vacationer has described as "nevertheless expecting their moment within the shadow of her workshop".

In 1950 she received two big blocks of Galway limestone which she carved into her Festival of Britain commission, the Contrapuntal Forms. A set of photos in the museum shows the progress of this assignment. Wood carving become performed in an upstairs room, and the bronze statues she commenced casting in 1956 had their origins in the plaster prototypes she labored on inside the upper of the two outdoor studios.