Barbara Hepworth, Forms (Brown, Grey and White), 1941 St Ives Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (The

Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Family Gift presented through the Art Fund)  Copyright: Bowness

Hand-poured

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Katarzyna Kobro

chairman of the War Artists Advisory Committee

Barbara Hepworth, Forms (Brown, Grey and White), 1941 St Ives Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (TheDuring World War II, Barbara Hepworth could only draw at night and make a few plaster maquettes as the day was filled with running a nursery school, double cropping a tiny garden for food, and trying to feed and protect the children. Drawings like Forms (Brown, Grey and White), 1941, allowed her to continue thinking about forms in space when she was unable to make physical objects. The crystalline structures relate to stringed sculptures that Hepworth