Hepworth once said she felt like a wounded gull being pecked to death by the healthy ones. Hepworth's marriage to Nicholson dissolved in the same year, although he remained in St Ives until 1958. Following her wish to establish her home and studio as a museum of her work, Trewyn Studio and much of the artist’s work remaining there was given to the nation and placed in the care of the Tate Gallery in 1980. She was 73 years old. September, Hepworth buys Trewyn Studio in St Ives, where she lives permanently from December 1950 until her death (it is now the Barbara Hepworth Museum, opened by her family in 1976 and since 1980 an outpost of the Tate Gallery).

She was a leading figure in the international art scene throughout a career spanning five decades. IVES, England, March. Her work was considerably set back by her reaction to the death of her son Paul in a plane crash in 1953. She was 73 years old. Britannica Explores 100 … Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was born in Wakefield. Her lyrical forms and feeling for material made her one of the most influential sculptors of the mid-20th century.

She lived and worked in Trewyn studios – now the Barbara Hepworth Museum – from 1949 until her death in 1975. Exhibition at Durlacher Bros., New York, in October. Her father was a surveyor for West Riding County Council, and Hepworth accompanied him on his inspections of local roads and bridges. Founder member of the Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall. Barbara Hepworth, in full Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth, (born January 10, 1903, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England—died May 20, 1975, St. Ives, Cornwall), sculptor whose works were among the earliest abstract sculptures produced in England. 20 (AP)—Dame Barbara Hepworth, one of the world's foremost sculptors, died tonight in a fire in her studio‐home here. Barbara Hepworth was a British sculptor, who was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1903.