Barbara Hepworth, Winter Solstice, 1970Having made her first lithograph in 1958, Barbara Hepworth was encouraged to return to printmaking in 1969 by Herbert Simon, the Director of the Curwen Press. The popular and affordable medium of printmaking may have been a draw for Hepworth, making it possible, as Simon pointed out, for people of modest means to own something by Barbara Hepworth. Winter Solstice is from the second complete suite that she made, called collectively Opposing Forms. The