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| United Kingdom | 37 |
| USA | 15 |
| Germany | 12 |
| Australia | 3 |
| Spain | 3 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom |
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PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, USA |
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Biography: 
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Courtesy by "New Art Centre, Salisbury"
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10.1.1903 Born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (UK)
Barbara Hepworth is one of the twentieth century´s most important and influential sculptors
she received scholarships to both Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London
1921 Awarded a county major scholarship and begins studies in sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London
1924 she was shortlisted for the Prix de Rome, alongside fellow sculptor John Skeaping, who not only won the competition, but was to become Hepworth´s first husband
1931 She met the painter Ben Nicholson, whom she later married
Joins the Seven and Five Society and exhibits until its demise in 1936
1933 Visits Paris with Ben Nicholson and meets Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brancusi
1935 Meets Naum Gabo and Piet Mondrian in Paris
1938 Marries Ben Nicholson (ends in 1951)
In the late thirties she and Nicholson were part of an important group of modernist artists, living in Hampstead, London, which included Henry Moore, Naum Gabo and Piet Mondrian
1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War, Hepworth and Nicholson moved to St Ives, Cornwall. Barbara was deeply affected by the place and it remained her home until she died
1949 Founds Penwith Society for Arts in Cornwall
1951 Buys Trewyn Studio and moves there permanently
1958 Receives CBE in New Year´s Honours List
1964 Becomes a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London
1966 Diagnosed with throat cancer, cared for by specialist Stanley Lee, at Westminster Hospital
1968 Awarded Honorary Degree from University of Oxford
1975 Opening of Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, Cornwall
20.5.1975 Died in Ives, Cornwall, England (UK)
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Public exhibitions 82
until 10.1.2010
Solo shows 9
2005
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| Barbara Hepworth - Drawings from the 1940s - Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London (England) |
2004
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| Barbara Hepworth - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
2003
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| Hepworth at 100 - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition - New Art Centre, Salisbury (England) |
2001
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| Barbara Hepworth: Stone Sculpture - PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
1975
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| Barbara Hepworth Memorial - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1973
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| Barbara Hepworth - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth |
1954
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| Barbara Hepworth - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 72
2009
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| The Discovery of Spain | British Artists and Collectors: Goya to Picasso - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Contemporary Fine and Applied Arts: 1928–2009 - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| La Escultura en la Colección del IVAM - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
2008
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| A Forest of Sculptures. The Simon Spierer Collection - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest |
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| Visible Places: Works on Paper by Women - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA |
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| Unpopular Culture - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (England) |
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| Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art - Barbican, London (England) |
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| Long Distance Information - Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka |
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| Skulpturen im Blickpunkt - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
2007
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| Aspects of Modern British Art and recent ceramics by Jason Wason - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Modern Britain 1900-1960 - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Good Form: The Goldschmidt Collection of (small scale) Sculpture - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Figura Humana y Abstracción - Würth Museo La Rioja, Agoncillo |
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| Modern British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection 1913-1966 - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - MIMA, Middlesbrough (England) |
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| Modern British watercolours and drawings - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| Spotlight on St Ives - Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire (England) |
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| 100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
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| Liebe auf den ersten Blick - Museum Würth, Künzelsau |
2006
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| Arena der Abstraktion - Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
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| How to Improve the World - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
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| 60th Anniversary Show - Gimpel Fils, London (England) |
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| Process of Abstraction - Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL |
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| Full House - Gesichter einer Sammlung - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
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| 60. Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection - Yorkshire Sculpture Park - YSP, Wakefield, West Yorkshire (England) |
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| EMBODIED MATTER - McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON |
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| Please close the gate - Painted Sculpture at Roche Court - New Art Centre, Salisbury (England) |
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| Modernism in St Ives - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
2005
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| American and European Selections - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| St Ives to Newlyn 'Hard Edge to Contre-Jour' - Caroline Wiseman, London (England) |
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| Marlborough Re-Opening Exhibition - Marlborough London, London (England) |
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| A feeling for form - Modernism in British and New Zealand art - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| Sculpture in the Open Air - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2004
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| Out of Place: Works from the Pier Arts Centre Collection, Orkney - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Paula's Home - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz |
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| English Prints from the Collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Objects of Our Desire - Sculpture from the Sheldon - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| Art of the Garden - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| The Brits - Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo |
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| Artists of the St Ives School, The essential image - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Ben Nicholson and The St Ives School - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Marlborough Re-opening Exhibition - Marlborough Galerie AG, Zurich |
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| Turning Points - 20th Century British Sculpture - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran |
2003
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| Artists Design Textlies - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Celebrating Sculpture : Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| Summer Travels - PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Die Fondation Maeght - Südliche Kunst unter nordischem Himmel - Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen |
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| The Stage of Drawing: Gesture & Act - Selected from the Tate Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| 20th Century British Art 2003 - Scolar Fine Art, London (England) |
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| MAKING WAVES: MASTERPIECES OF MODERN BRITISH ART - Ben Uri Gallery - The London Jewish Museum of Art, London (England) |
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| Pier Arts Centre Collection - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| This was Tomorrow - New Art Centre, Salisbury (England) |
2002
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| Happy New Year! - PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Mirror Mirror - The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Somerset (England) |
2000
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| Drawing Distinctions - Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolours of the British Artists - The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| Reunion - Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, Warwickshire (England) |
1999
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| '45-'99 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Sculpture from the New Europe: public sculpture for the 2 Germanies 1945-68 - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (England) |
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| Carved, Modeled, Assembled, Welded, Drawn - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
1998
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| Carving Mountains - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
1997
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| Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists - - PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Summer Show '97 - PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Sculptors' Drawings - Cornerhouse, Manchester (England) |
1992
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| The Non-Objective World - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
1988
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| British art of the 20C - Richard Nagy, London (England) |
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| Surface - Figure - Space - - Galerie Gmurzynska - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2006) |
1959
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
1955
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| documenta 1 - Documenta, Kassel |
1932
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| Neue Englische Kunst - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
| Dealer Directory 21 |
Monaco
| | Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
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United Kingdom
| | Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Beaux Arts, London (England)
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| | Browse & Darby, London (England)
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| | Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England)
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| | Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London (England)
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| | Annely Juda Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Lefevre Fine Art Limited, London (England)
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| | OSBORNE SAMUEL, London (England)
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| | Robert Sandelson, London (England)
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| | Waddington Galleries, London (England)
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| | William Weston Gallery, London (England)
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| | Caroline Wiseman, London (England)
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| | Morgan-Boyce Gallery, Marlborough, Wiltshite (England)
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| | Belgrave Gallery St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
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USA
| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Eli Klein Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY
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| | PaceWildenstein - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY
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| | PaceWildenstein - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY
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Public collections 47
Australia
| | Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
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| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Brazil
| | Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
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Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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France
| | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Nancy
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Germany
| | Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
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Japan
| | Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
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| | Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama
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| | MOMAK National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Kyoto
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| | Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
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Liechtenstein
| | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
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Netherlands
| | Gemeentemuseum Helmond - Boscotondohal, Helmond
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| | Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
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New Zealand
| | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
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Portugal
United Kingdom
| | Ulster Museum, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
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| | Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham (England)
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| | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
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| | Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
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| | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Scotland)
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| | Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England)
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| | Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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| | Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (England)
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| | Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, Warwickshire (England)
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| | New Art Centre, Salisbury (England)
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| | Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
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| | Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (Wales)
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| | Yorkshire Sculpture Park - YSP, Wakefield, West Yorkshire (England)
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USA
| | Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
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| | Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
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| | UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
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| | CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
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| | Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
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| | Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
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| | Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
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| | Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
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| | Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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| | The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
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| | San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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| | Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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