Artist & Exhibition Timelines

Wakefield’s art collection was established in 1923 with the aim of nurturing an understanding of contemporary art and its relation to modern life – a collecting principle still followed by The Hepworth Wakefield today.

This timeline looks at a selection of paintings, prints and ceramics in Wakefield’s Art Collection made by artists Hepworth knew and worked with in Cornwall

Brandt and Moore’s acclaimed ‘shelter pictures’ are the starting point for this timeline, which traces the intersecting careers of these two influential 20th-century artists.

Trace the story of Lee Miller’s involvement with the Surrealist circles and how Britain, for a brief but intense time in the late 1930s, became a Surrealist centre.

The Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow produced a radical body of work in which she explored her own physicality during one of the most tumultuous periods in twentieth-century history.