European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The it Eft museum officials seem upset at visitors find miss Hepworth s works Handy place to sit. The elegant marbles bronzes Anima Hoganes seem to charge the sculptural Hall with life. Rich of texture and Subtle in shape they dance before the Eye a capricious illusion in form and  of the most imposing of these creations Greet the visitor Asne arrive sat London s Tate gallery where they have been mounted on the Steps fronting the thames. And once inside the court is crowded with competing shapes and colors burnished Bronze squares slender carved Eaks stringed Mah Ganies Gray Ala Baster free forms reclining puncture figures in stones and Woods the Eye shifts across the unusual land scape and at once a dozen ideas Are set in motion. But As impressive As it is 186 sculptures ranging in size from 3 inches to 14 fee the exhibition re presents Only a fraction of the prodigious output of Barbara Hepworth an artist rated by some critics As the world s greatest woman sculptor. The Tate show it will remain Ope through May 19 includes 40 drawings and paintings in addition to the Sculp Tures and covers four decades of miss Hepworth s  earliest piece in the exhibition and one of the smallest is a group of White Marble doves from 1927. The largest and one of the latest works is a 1966four-Square walk through in Bronze which consists of four huge slabs with polished openings a feature that provides a lifelike form despite the obvious abstraction. Between these two creations there Isan amazing variety of work and mate rials All of which have become progressively More abstract. Although she has worked in metals Bronze brass and aluminium miss Hep by Bob Hoyer a Treau chief Worth has always related a pre Ference for carving seling f or working directly on Berial itself it is perhaps for Theon that her works seem to com viewer to touch and rub them v in this connection views on Artsee appropriate i think mine is aft passion Teart Remote very b. Primitive. There is something Tyvus and Soli tary about a form vat your body is photos by Hunter wholly in making great Comfort to Active to touch it and sculpture is visual ment you put you most people Are innate want to use their Haithem holes to walk  Lich is a it s Evo Jund  ele j or Arm . They Beer through the Sculp a slim highly miss Hepworth s Vilf has captivated the critics by her ability to m Sive forms she deals when you carve very tender touch you move a great buffing it. Then you Coyour  like Henry  and later knew lege of Art in direct carving As a from 19th Century from the influence of trying to give Ston Spearance of flesh the to preserve the Partite material he was 111 Wilc person always fascinated often Mas you need acut lightly than a mainly break she met at Royal col regarded breaking free scism an instead of ble the air s o u g h t character of miss Hepworth s interest in Art Date from the age of 7 when she attended a lecture with slides or. Egyptian Sculp at 16 she won a Scholow flip to the Leeds school of Art the Rottke following year in 1921, she transferred to the sculpture school of the Royal  childhood landscape has been important to her particularly the York Shire Countryside she knew As a Small girl her most vivid memories Are product of the trips she made with her father Herbert h. Hepworth the count Surveyor in his Early automobile. _ splendor of the Yorkshire Dales contrasted to the grim e an squalor of the collieries and slag heaps of the Industrial towns made a deep impression. This Paradox expressed for me most forcibly the fundamental and Ideal Unity of Man with nature which i consider Tobe one of the Basic impulses of Sculp Ture she has  position of Man in relation to this country and the horror of the approach ing slump and then the first world War absorbed All my  the exploitation of Man the image of human dignity in spite of these horrors obsessed me i would imagine Stone images rising out of the ground which would pinpoint the spiritual Triumph of Man and at the same Tim give the sensuous evocative and biologically necessary fetish for  images Are present at the Tate exhibition and they Are evident in he studio Garden in Cornwall. Stir aglow with ideas at 65, miss Hep Worth spends much of her time in Corn  get very homesick for my Ham mers she said. For those who take an Active View of the arts the carvings made an Ideal setting for peek a boo. Figure of a woman 1929-30 has windblown look. Page 12 sculpture with color 1943 uses Blue Interior red lines the stars and stripes two figures 194 a Menhir meaning ancient monoliths. Ril 24, 1968 a i four Square walk through 1966 is strangely lifelike. The stars and stripes sculptress Hepwor a examines three piece vertical. Page 13