Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004
A Line of Drawing, 1943-1993
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Stromness
1986
pencil & wash on paper
56.5 x 77 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham,
Monreale, Sicily
1955
pencil & wash on paper
46.8 x 58 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Chiusure, Tuscany
1955
pencil & mixed media on paper
42.9 x 54 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Lava Forms 3
1993
chalk on paper
28.4 x 41.2 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
San Gimignano
1953
pencil on board
18 x 25.5 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
A Line of Drawing, 1943-1993
27 March – 12 May, 2012
Art First is delighted to present 50 years of drawing by this most distinguished Scottish artist. Before she died in 2004, the gallery had exhibited Barns-Grahams' new, vibrantly coloured abstract paintings and prints throughout the final decade of her life.
Historical surveys at Tate St Ives presented a revelatory range of her work to great acclaim, but until recently there had been no real appraisal of what Mel Gooding's monograph on her drawings describes as 'one of the most brilliantly distinctive bodies of graphic work in twentieth century British art'.
