sentences:  Meanwhile—through bringing Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and, with them, Naum Gabo, to St Ives in 1939 – Stokes became the main catalyst of the town’s transformation into an internationally acclaimed centre of modern art.During World War II he worked as a market gardener and for the Home Guard.Alongside this work he completed a further Early Italian Renaissance book, "Venice" (1945).