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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

CBE, HRSA, HRSW
1912-2004

Table Dance (Collage 44), 1984-85

acrylic on card
H:10cm W:13.5cm
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September Orkney, 1985-86

gouache on paper
H:47.3cm W:57.1cm
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Two Island Series (No.2) Orkney, 1987

oil and pencil on hardboard
H:29.8cm W:60.8cm
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Orkney, 1984

pencil and oil on paper
H:17.7cm W:22.8cm
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Porthmeor, 1992

gouache
H:57cm W:76cm
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Fun Day No. 4, 1990

pen, ink and acrylic
H:19cm W:26cm
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Three Images Underwater White, Red and Yellow Drifting, 1982

pen, ink and oil
H:27.2cm W:19.9cm
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Crail 4, 1984

acrylic on card
H:12.7cm W:18.1cm
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Olive Tree, San Gimignano, 1954

pencil and tempera
H:42.5cm W:54cm
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[Untitled], 1998

acrylic on paper
H:38cm W:29.5cm
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Feb II, 1999-2001

acrylic on paper
H:58.5cm W:77cm
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[Untitled], 1998

acrylic on paper
H:25.4cm W:37.6cm
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Beach Dance, 1997-98

acrylic on paper
H:58cm W:77.5cm
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Chiusure July 9 & 10, 1953

pencil & wash
H:42.2cm W:54.1cm
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Palinure Campagna, 1955

pencil and pastel
H:47cm W:59cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

CBE, HRSA, HRSW
Born: 1912
Place of Birth: St Andrews
Died: 2004

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was born in St Andrews and attended Edinburgh College of Art 1932-7. She moved to St Ives in the 1940s, where she joined the artist societies of Newlyn, St Ives and Penwith and became friends with Nicholson, Hepworth and Gabo. A trip to Switzerland in 1948 inspired her Glacier Series and further significant travel to Italy in 1955 highlighted her strong draughtsmanship. She divided her time between St Andrews and St Ives from 1960 and produced various significant series of abstract works from the geometric to the more organic. Later in her life, her work took on a colourful, painterly flourishing in tandem with magnificent printmaking with Graal Press, consolidating her place as a major Modern British figure.

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