Which British sculptor and artist of the 20th century, whose work was said to exemplify Modernism, was made a Dame in 1965 and died aged 72 in a fire in her studio at St Ives, Cornwall, in 1975?
St Ives, Cornwall to produce some of the most exhilarating art of the twentieth century...for a few dazzling years this place was as famous as Paris, as exciting as New York and infinitely more progressive than London." The programme explored the lives and works of the key figures and their contributions in establishing St Ives as a major centre of British art from the 1920s onwards. The Barbara Hepworth Museum and her sculpture garden are the responsibility of Tate St Ives. It was the wish of the late sculptor to leave her work on public display in perpetuity. The St Ives Museum has
St Ives, Cornwall some of the festival events. Early-20th-century figures in St Ives appear in Virginia Woolf's reflections contained in "A Sketch of the Past", from "Moments of Being," "...I could fill pages remembering one thing after another. All together made the summer at St. Ives the best beginning to life imaginable. Her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" is said to have been influenced by the view from Talland House where she stayed with her parents on family holidays. The Cornish language poet Mick Paynter is resident in St Ives. Modern-day novelist Elizabeth Day, author of "The Party," writes many of her novels