The hospital drawings of Barbara Hepworth

I have visited theHepworth in Wakefield on a number of occasion, was struck (bear with me) by paintings by Alfred Wallis, a sailor from Devon who taught himself to paint after the death of his wife, and settled in St Ives (the one in Cornwall), where he was spotted by Ben Nicholson, and his work brought to the attention of Kettle ' s Yard in Cambridge. Here is Kettle ' s Yard ' s page about Wallis, and some images.I am no art expert (that is other family members), but I was struck by the nature of the images.  The perspective of some seemed to vary from one item in the picture to another.  The most important things in the pictures were the sea and the boats, reflecting, I suppose, the life of a mariner.  One showed a ship sailing up a 45 degree slope, which must be what the real sea feels like sometimes.And it was on one visit that I noticed in the bookshop a book about Barbara Hepworth ' s hospital drawings....  I had seen sculpture by her even before going to Wakefield, but not come across hospital drawings.The story is told in thisopen access article in the Postgraduate Medical Journal.  One of Hepworth ' s children was in hospital, the surgeon was an amateur artist, and Hepworth ended up observing operations.  The article contains some of the resulting drawings.There are some others in thisopen access article in the BMJ.
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