Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life review – a blockbuster of diminishing returns

Rachael Cooke | The Guardian | 30th June 2021

Hepworth vies with Henry Moore as Britain’s pre-eminent modernist sculptor. A new biography documents how her career was hampered by being a penniless single parent with four children. Hepworth thought it a “miracle” that she produced any work. After those years, she was prolific. The verdict on a major retrospective is mixed: “Its sheer, dogged tastefulness makes it easy to like … difficult to love … [but] undeniably imposing.”