Can you name this Scottish boxer? The great British art quiz

This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home of the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues, by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK sets the questions.

Today, our questions are set by the Hepworth Wakefield, the collection established in 1923 with a collecting policy to “nurture a public understanding of contemporary art and its relations to modern life”. Works were acquired by the up-and-coming artists of the day, including local heroes Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Today the collection is celebrated for its holdings of 20th-century and contemporary art.

You can see art from the Hepworth Wakefield on Art UK here. Find out more on its website here.

Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) was fascinated with space exploration, and celestial bodies began appearing in her sculptures and prints following the first moon landing in which year?

Lucie Rie’s (1902–1995) pottery was included in Wakefield Art Gallery’s groundbreaking exhibition Living Today, in 1959. What was the name of the visionary director who organised it and cemented Wakefield’s reputation as an important UK centre for contemporary art?

‘He was very exciting to paint. I remember him being extremely patient, gentle, very sensitive with his hands and enjoying posing.’ What is the name of the Scottish boxer in this painting by Maggi Hambling (b 1945)?

Following the hospitalisation of her daughter Sarah in 1944, Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) created a remarkable series of drawings and paintings illustrating surgeons at work in operating theatres. Which medical procedure is this work named after?

In 1976, Wakefield was the first collection in the UK to acquire a work by the Kenya-born artist Magdalene Odundo. The Journey of Things, Odundo’s 2019 exhibition at the the Hepworth Wakefield, was designed by which internationally acclaimed architect?

Anthea Hamilton’s Leg Chair (Sushi Nori) was acquired shortly before the artist’s 2016 exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield, in which the artist was invited to create an exhibition using works from which collection?

This full-scale prototype for Barbara Hepworth’s Winged Figure forms the centrepiece of the Hepworth Wakefield collection of working models gifted by the Hepworth family. Which London department store was the sculpture commissioned for?

Helen Marten has an important place in the gallery’s history, having won the inaugural Hepworth prize for sculpture in 2016. That same year Marten went on to win which other major art world prize?

Turner prize The Hepworth prize for sculpture recognises a British or UK-based artist of any age, at any stage of their career, who has made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary sculpture. It is named after Barbara Hepworth, a sculptural pioneer in her own time, who benefited from prizes throughout her life. The most recent winner of the prize, in 2018, was Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans. Image: Installation image of Helen Marten, Becoming Branch, 2014, on display at The Hepworth Wakefield, March 2020. Credit: Lewis Ronald.

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