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Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE ( January 10 , 1903 – May 20 , 1975 ), born in Wakefield , West Yorkshire , was one of the most important British Artists of the 20th Century . She was certainly the pre-eminent female English Sculptor and often considered as great a sculptor as her friend and contemporary Henry Moore , if not quite as famous. Barbara Hepworth was christened Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth, but she was always known simply as Barbara. She studied Art at Leeds School Of Art (where she met and became friends with Henry Moore ), at the Royal College Of Art , London , and in Italy . One of her most prestigious works was Single Form (1961 –1964), a memorial to the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld , at the United Nations building in New York City . Hepworth married the sculptor John Skeaping (1901-1980), and in 1933 became the second wife of the painter Ben Nicholson ; they divorced in 1951. She was knighted in 1965. Hepworth died in a fire in her studio in St Ives, Cornwall , aged 72. Her home and studio are now the Barbara Hepworth Museum . Hepworth's work can be seen in St Ives at the Barbara Hepworth Museum , at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton , West Yorkshire . Examples can also be found at Churchill College and New Hall , Cambridge . In London there is one at Kenwood House , and in Oxford Street one of her large sculptures is attached to the eastern wall of the John Lewis department store. Another sculpture is affixed to the outer wall of a tall office building in St Martin's Lane , near Covent Garden . LIST OF SELECTED WORKS features many examples of modern art, including two pieces by Hepworth]]
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