Blackwell UK
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W. Barns-Graham
A Studio Life
ISBN: 9780853318286
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Edition: illustrated edition
This is the first book devoted to the significant British abstract painter, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Born in 1912, in Fife, Scotland, for over sixty years she has lived and worked in St Ives, at the heart of the avant-garde group of artists who made the town internationally famous.
Lynne Green documents more than six decades of a prodigiously inventive and productive career, and traces the evolution of the artist's strikingly individual vision. More
In this examination of the six decades of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's work, Lynne Green traces the evolution of the artist's individual vision in relation to her Scottish roots and the influence of her teachers at the Edinburgh School of Art. Her commitment to abstraction is discussed in depth, as is the series of paintings in which she explores the possibilities of pure line, form and colour. Green places Barns-Graham in the story of the St Ives School and establishes her personal achievement as a painter and her wider contribution to 20th-century art.
