About this artwork
This print was made with Rachel Kantaris at Porthmeor Printmakers in St Ives. At this time Barns-Graham was working on her second series of her renowned Scorpio paintings. She used the sugar-lift etching technique to make this print because it allowed her to recreate the brush marks from her paintings.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Scorpio I
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date created:1996
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materials:Sugar-Lift etching and aquatint on paper
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measurements:56.00 x 76.00 cm
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credit line:Gift of Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5401
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Born in St Andrews, Barns-Graham studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1932 to 1937, where she became interested in abstract art. She moved to St Ives in Cornwall in 1940, finding among the modernist artists who had settled there (including Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth) a...
