Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
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Art Work
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham |
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Female |
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St. Andrews, Scotland |
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| Birth: |
1912 |
| Death: |
2003 |
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Quick Facts
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Oil, acrylic |
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Abstraction |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a founder member of the Penwith Society. Her work has often developed from her experience of places, from wartime St Ives, to Grindelwaid, Switzerland, whose high glaciers she first saw in 1950, leading to a series of intricately plotted paintings evoking the transparencies and opacities of ice under light. She has also made completely abstract works, such as Red Form {1954, Tate}, characterized by sharp geometric shapes and powerful color. She taught at Leeds College of Art with Alan Davie and Terry Frost in 1956-7. Retrospectives of Barns-Graham's art have been held at City of Edinburgh Museums and Art Galleries (1989) and Tate St Ives (2000). But, she has tended to be marginalized, along with Mellis, in the mapping of modernism in Cornwall, as Nedira Yakir has discussed in her essay 'Cornubia: gender, geography and genealogy in St Ives Modernism' (in K. Deepwell (ed.). Women Artists and Modernism, Manchester 1998). There has also been some criticism of the wide variety of styles in Barns-Graham's work. Interviewed for the National life Story Collection in 1994, the artist stated, 'I never went for anything I was successful at, I was always experimenting.
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