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Based on new research, and drawing on information contained in her numerous diaries, The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham incorporates a complete illustrated catalogue of all of the artist's known work in etching, linocut, lithography, screenprinting and monotype, from 1946 to 2007. This book will prove an invaluable resource for museum curators, students of British art and 20th-century abstraction, and all those seeking to learn more about this aspect of the career of one of Britain's most important artists of the late 20th century.
In an engaging and lively narrative, Lynne Green documents more than six decades of the prodigiously inventive and productive career of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and traces the evolution of the artist's strikingly individual wisdom.
Born in Fife, Scotland Wilhelmina Barns Graham (1912-2004) travelled and studied in Europe during the late 1930s before arriving in St Ives in 1940. Inspired by international abstract trends and her subsequent association with Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and the post-war painters and maker of the Penwith Society, she embarked on a career spanning 64 years. This publication accompanies an important exhibition of selected highlights from the career of this popular St Ives Modernist. It reveals the evolution of a number of key concepts which pre-occupied Barns Graham for more than three decades of her painting career, a period that saw her become regarded as one of Britain's leadng abstract painters. The book will show the quintessential Barns Graham, with special attention given to her Glacier paintings and drawings, and her relationship with the landscape of St Ives. It includes new works made shortly before her death in January 2004. an essay by critic Mel Gooding, takes a fresh view of the artist's diverse oeuvre and discusses her particular relationship to the landscape.