Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004
Order and Disorder
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Bird Song
1966
oil on canvas
60.5 x 121.5 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Vermilion and White Discs on Light Red
1971
oil & acrylic on board
35.3 x 35.4 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Invasion Olive Green on Lilac and Vermillion
1968
oil on board
50.5 x 51 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Outside Inside – Meditation Series
1978
acrylic on canvas
126.6 x 102.4 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Sixteenth Bonfire
1975
oil on canvas
76 x 75.8 cm
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Olive Green Squares on Vermillion
1968
oil on canvas
90.7 x 121 cm
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Order and Disorder
The Paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1965-1980
24th March - 23rd April, 2009
Barns-Graham's paintings of 1965 to 1980 are a distinct group, yet they are also part of a continuing thread that weaves its way through her career, from the glacier paintings of the early 1950s to the liberated abstract expressionism of her final decade. The paintings from this period played a vital role in the development of her future work, and without their intense investigation of Order and Disorder, the exciting late work, as we know it, may never have materialised in the manner in which it did. This presentation of paintings from a fifteen year period is the first such investigation of a specific development within Barns-Graham's oeuvre.
Art First, in association with The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust, 2009