The modernist sculptor, Barbara Hepworth, travelled to Greece after the Second World War. Curved Form (Delphi), 1955, part of Ulster Museum’s impressive sculpture collection, was inspired by her time there.
This is just one of the many pieces in the collection that allow a privileged glimpse into the experience of the artist. Other favourites from the 20th century include the undulating figures of Henry Moore, and the surreal, and often moving, work of F.E. McWilliam.
The collection also includes the challenging assemblages of Anthony Caro and Philip King, abstract sculptures by Isamu Noguchi, and bronzes by Barry Flanagan. Local work, such as Rosamund Praeger’s Fairy Fountain, 1901, are also featured.
Our collection of earlier work traces the development of sculpture before the 20th century, through a series of busts of important local figures, created in the 18th and 19th centuries.
BELUM.U960
1968/8 - 2 (1968)
Sculpture
BELUM.U966
Ahmed (1932) (Doris Ahmed)
Sculpture, bust
BELUM.U1821
Alexander Mitchell 1780-1868
Sculpture, bust
BELUM.U1782
Allegory of the Via Aemilia
Sculpture, relief
BELUM.U2223
Angel (1909)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1812
Anna May Wong 1907-61 (1933)
Sculpture
BELUM.U2359
Ascona (1972)
Sculpture
BELUM.U4971
Axis (1993)
Sculpture
BELUM.U2694
Barrel Construction (1964)
Sculpture
BELUM.U980
Black Sun (1967)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1758
Cathedral No. 1 (1965)
Sculpture
BELUM.U951
Crash (1964)
Sculpture
BELUM.U4692
Creature (1983)
Sculpture
BELUM.U965
Curved Form (Delphi) (1955)
Sculpture
BELUM.U4938
Dark Fruit (1989)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1753
Dispersal : On Black (1967)
Sculpture, relief
BELUM.U4744
Double Portrait : Gordon Lambert and David Hendriks (1979 - 1980)
Collage
BELUM.U1811
Ecce Homo (1915)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1164
Francis Johnston 1760 - 1829 (c.1810)
Bust
BELUM.U2569
Frederick Richard Chichester, Earl of Belfast 1827-53 (1855)
Sculpture, bust
BELUM.U1761
George Russell ('AE') 1867-1935 (1933)
Sculpture, bust
BELUM.U2298
Glass Fibre Form (1974)
Sculpture
BELUM.U957
Grey Box (1967)
Sculpture
BELUM.U4846
Head of Jack Butler Yeats 1871-1957 (1944)
Sculpture
BELUM.U5011
Head of Joan Greenwood
bust
BELUM.U968
Head of William Scott 1913-89 (1956)
Sculpture
BELUM.U959
Horus II (1960)
Sculpture
BELUM.U4930.1
Humming Head
Sculpture
BELUM.U531
Image in Relief (1961)
Sculpture, relief
BELUM.U958
Iris (1968)
Sculpture
BELUM.U967
Man and Wife (1948)
Sculpture
BELUM.U2413, C8940, C8941
Man with Ring (1975)
Sculpture
BELUM.U974
Masque Ornementale (1912)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1857
Mother and Child (1930)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1165
Mrs. Francis Johnston, neé Anne Barnes 1769-1842 (c.1810)
Bust
BELUM.U2555
New Metal Piece (1978)
Sculpture
BELUM.U538
Observer 4 (1959)
Construction
BELUM.U5002, C6249, C6250
Passion Bed (1990)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1905
Pentarhythms (1970)
Sculpture
BELUM.U525
Pyramid of Light (1964)
Construction
BELUM.U1430, A6176, A6177
Rainy Day (1971)
Sculpture
BELUM.U532
Relief No. 141 (1967)
Construction
BELUM.U4850
Robert Burns
Sculpture
BELUM.U1760
Sir John Lavery, RA, RHA, RSA 1856-1941 (c1925 - 30)
Sculpture
BELUM.U4966
Sir Richard Griffith 1784-1878 (1859)
Sculpture, bust
BELUM.U4731, A8717, A8718
Still Life for Sarah
Mixed media
BELUM.U683
Street Corner Study : London Series (1967 - 69)
Construction
BELUM.U1789
The Circle of Spring (1921)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1816
The Dawn of Womanhood (1918)
Sculpture
BELUM.U1767
The Fairy Fountain (c1900 - 1)
Sculpture
BELUM.U970
The Friends (1951)
Sculpture
BELUM.U2522
The Miner's Kitchen (1973)
Sculpture, relief