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British-born (1903-1975) sculptor Barbara Hepworth has been called one of the outstanding women artists of the twentieth century. Throughout her working life and until her death, she never received the recognition of male contemporaries such as another—and more famous—British sculptor, Henry Moore. Comparing the two, art critic Leslie Judd Portner, in Washington Post and Times Herald, noted that "Where Moore concerns himself with natural forms, Hepworth's work is almost entirely abstract."

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