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
Sadie Kuttner Epstein famous vocalists he was pronounced one of the most skillful of accompanists. The Epsteins lived at 4316 Lindell, and had two daughters, Marian Epstein Goldstein (1905-1985) and Janet Epstein Mendelson (1909-2005), who were also talented in music. She died in May 28, 1973, and is buried at New Mount Sinai Cemetery, Affton, Missouri. Sadie Kuttner Epstein Sadie Kuttner Epstein (1883 - May 28, 1973) was an American concert singer. Sadie Kuttner was born in Cincinnati in 1883, the daughter of Simon H. Kuttner (1853-1940) and Pauline Grunauer (1850-1913). She moved to St. Louis in 1900, at which time she entered