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New Barbara Hepworth Letters Rewrite The Idea Of The Great Artist As A Bad Mother

VISUAL Posted: April 20, 2020 5:30 am

Hepworth has, for decades, been thought of as a cold and uncaring parent who sent her triplets away when they were four months old so she could get some work done. Surprise: The letters tell a quite different story about postpartum depression and abandonment by the babies’ father (and an idealistic view of the “nursery college” where she sent the babies for just over nine months). – The Observer (UK)

VISUAL Published: 04.19.20

Read the story in The Observer (UK) Published: 04.19.20

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