Saturday Art galleries in St Ives

On Saturday I went first to the Barbara Hepworth museum. I had never heard of her. It was interesting to read of her long and productive life and to see the influence of other modern artists on her work.  I liked her sculptures . They were interesting shapes. She lived in St Ives for quite a while and there is a museum of her life and some of her works in the attached garden. She was commissioned to make a large sculpture that stands outside the United Nations building in New York. Despite spending 5 weeks there last year,  I never went to the UN headquarters.

There is an outpost of the Tate in St Ives. Usually I read about a building and it's design first, but not this time. It seemed an odd arrangement of curved narrow galleries, open spaces, though if you went sequentially, the paintings made some sense. I read, while I was having coffee after looking at the paintings that the design of the building was based on an old boiler that was on the site and the narrow windy lanes of St ives. That made sense.

I ambled around for the rest of the day enjoying being on a holiday.