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

Painting by Maggi Hambling, 1974. Read the quiz to see if you got his identity right. Photograph: © the artist/Hepworth Wakefield

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.

1. 

   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?

   1. 1952

   2. 1959

   3. 1966

   4. 1962

2. 

   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?

   1. Helen Kapp

   2. Jacob Kramer

   3. György Gordon

   4. Ernest Musgrave

3. 

   '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)?

   1. Jim Watt

   2. Manuel Abrew

   3. Fundo Mhura

   4. Charlie Abrew

4. 

   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?

   1. Bone graft

   2. Tibia graft

   3. Skin graft

   4. Radius graft

5. 

   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?

   1. David Chipperfield

   2. David Adjaye

   3. Farshid Moussavi

   4. Amanda Levete

6. 

   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?

   1. Kettle’s Yard

   2. The Sainsbury Centre

   3. Centre for Ceramic Art at York Art Gallery

   4. Leeds Art Gallery

7. 

   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?

   1. John Lewis

   2. Harrods

   3. Harvey Nichols

   4. House of Fraser

8. 

   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?

   1. Turner prize

   2. BP portrait award

   3. Loewe Foundation craft prize

   4. The Hugo Boss prize

Solutions

1:B - The first human-made object to touch the moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2, on 13 September 1959. Image: Genesis III, 1966, Barbara Hepworth, © Bowness. Credit: The Hepworth Wakefield , 2:A - For Living Today, Kapp invited eight architects to refurnish and redecorate Wakefield Art Gallery – then several adjoining terraced houses in Wakefield’s city centre – as if they were once again inhabited domestic spaces. In the exhibition, Kapp emphasised the interdisciplinary role of the arts during the 50s and 60s and celebrated the home as a place where these art forms naturally live side by side. Image: Vase, 1959, Lucie Rie © the artist’s estate, Credit: Jerry Hardman-Jones. , 3:D - Charlie Abrew was a lightweight boxer forced to retire when he became blind. In the 1930s he and his brother Manuel were Scotland's only boxers of African origin. Image: Charlie Abrew, 1974, Maggi Hambling © the artist. Credit: The Hepworth Wakefield. , 4:B - Hepworth talked about expecting to find the experience grim, but that she was 'enthralled by the classic beauty of what I saw there'. Image: Tibia Graft, 1949, Barbara Hepworth © Bowness. Credit: The Hepworth Wakefield. , 5:C - The Journey of Things brought 50 of Magdalene Odundo’s works from across her career into dialogue with over 100 objects that she had studied or drawn on for inspiration: from ancient Greek, pre-Hispanic pottery and modern British studio ceramics, to African sculpture and work by European artists including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Image: Esinasulo (Water Carrier), 1974-76, Magdalene Odundo © the artist. Credit: The Hepworth Wakefield. , 6:A - The exhibition of the Kettle’s Yard collection at the Hepworth Wakefield was made possible owing to the refurbishment of the Cambridge gallery, which reopened in 2018. Image: Leg Chair (Sushi Nori), 2012, Anthea Hamilton © the artist. Credit: Doug Atfield. , 7:A - Hepworth’s Winged Figure has been mounted on the side of John Lewis since 1963. Hepworth imagined it as a calm presence above the 'immense hurly-burly of Oxford Street'. Image: Winged Figure, 1961-2, Barbara Hepworth © Bowness. Credit: Jonty Wilde. , 8:A - 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.

Scores

1. 8 and above.

   A brush with greatness!

2. 7 and above.

   A great impression!

3. 6 and above.

   A good impression

4. 5 and above.

   A good impression

5. 4 and above.

   A decent impression

6. 3 and above.

   Not the worst impression

7. 2 and above.

   Better start brushing up!

8. 0 and above.

   Better start brushing up!

9. 1 and above.

   Better start brushing up!