Barbara Hepworth the Castle Inn; nineteen artists were founding members, including Peter Lanyon and Bernard Leach. Hepworth was also a skilled draughtsman. After her daughter Sarah was hospitalised in 1944, she struck up a close friendship with the surgeon Norman Capener. At Capener's invitation, she was invited to view surgical procedures and, between 1947–1949, she produced nearly eighty drawings of operating rooms in chalk, ink, and pencil. Hepworth was fascinated by the similarities between surgeons and artists, stating: "There is, it seems to me, a close affinity between the work and approach of both physicians and surgeons, and painters and sculptors." In
Barbara Epstein Epstein, together with friends Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, founded the biweekly magazine "The New York Review of Books", which Barbara called "the paper". She and Robert B. Silvers became the editors. Barbara Epstein remained at the New York Review of Books as an editor for 43 years. The Epsteins divorced in 1990; Barbara Epstein lived with journalist Murray Kempton until his death in 1997. She continued in her editing until shortly before her death. Epstein died on June 16, 2006 of lung cancer in New York City at age 77. Barbara Epstein Barbara Epstein (August 30, 1928 – June