Two years ago when angular, handsome British Sculptress-Painter Barbara Hepworth agreed to look on at a surgical operation, she was afraid she might faint. Instead she found herself "fascinated by the complete perfection of the movements, more rigid and precise than those of a ballet . . . the remarkable tension, lighting and grouping."
Since then 46-year-old Miss Hepworth, wife of topflight Painter Ben Nicholson (TIME, Dec. 13) and mother of a 20-year-old son and 15-year-old triplets (two girls and a boy), has returned to the operating theater many times. In mask and gown she stood quietly observant behind doctors and nurses,...
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