John Skeaping
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John Rattenbury Skeaping, RA was an English sculptor and equine painter and sculptor. He designed animal figures for Wedgwood, and his life-size statue of Secretariat is exhibited at the National Muse
Akua-ba, 1931, Tate
Skeaping's life-size statue of Secretariat at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York
Mill Reef (1972), Rokeby Stables, Upperville, Virginia.
Monkeys
Barbara Hepworth
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Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading
John Skeaping
…until 1920. In 1924, he won the British Prix de Rome and its scholarship to the British School at Rome.̣ Skeaping was the first husband of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, whom he met while studying in Rome. They married in May 1925 in Florence. The couple had a joint exhibition in 1928 at the Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery…
Hepworth in 1966
Monolith-Empyrean, 1953.
Corinthos (sculpted in guarea wood), 1954–55, at Tate Liverpool.
Single Form (Memorial) at Battersea Park, London.