Figure for Landscape

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Title	Figure for Landscape
View	Overall view from the side
Work Type	visual works sculpture (visual work)
Style/Period	Twentieth century
Creator Name	Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975
Creator Nationality	British
Date.Creator Birth	1903
Date.Creator Death	1975
Contributors to Project	Barbara Hepworth (British sculptor, 1903-1975)
Subject.work	abstraction contemporary (1960 to present) nonrepresentational art
Country	United States
City	Los Angeles
State/Province	California
Location.Notes	Brentwood; 1200 Getty Center Drive. Gift of Fran and Ray Stark
Art Medium	bronze
Technique	casting (process)
Dates	cast 1968 (creation); designed 1960 (design)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	7/17/2007
Subject Information	Adjacent to the Museum's West Pavilion, outside the entrance to the Center for Photographs, is the Stark Sculpture Terrace, with works that depict the broad outlines of figurative sculpture's move from representation to abstraction. Hepworth's Figure for Landscape is located here. About nine feet tall, this hollowed-out bronze sculpture is a commanding presence. It is not recognizable as a specific human form, but the narrowing shape suggests the contours of a head and body. Barbara Hepworth often pierced or punctured her forms, creating a play of positive and negative space. Here, the four openings accentuate the sculpture's relation to the surrounding landscape--an interplay reinforced by the work's title.
Information.source	The Getty [website]; http://www.getty.edu/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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