Barbara Hepworth was a prominent member of the Seven and Five Society in the 1930s. Although initially established to preserve traditional values in art, the arrival of Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and Henry Moore transformed the group into a modernist hub for the promotion of abstraction. In 1939, Hepworth moved permanently from London to the village of St. Ives in Cornwall, where she lived and worked until her death in 1975. Her sculpture is notable for its oscillation between organic and geometric forms. In this bronze, an organic form is embedded within a hollow sphere. "All my life," she once wrote, "I have wanted to put a form on a form on a form as an offering." Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2020