Barbara Hepworth's True Colors (opens in new tab)

Sculpture with Colour (Eos), by Barbara Hepworth, 1946. An exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, in London, reveals how the British modernist brought color into her abstract sculptures and geometric drawings By Patricia Zohn We tend to picture her sculptures unadorned. Monumental limestone couples. The mother and child in sensuous alabaster. Burled-wood torsos, all impressive in their purity and scale. Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) exploited her material with rigor, incorporating open space into ...