About this artwork
To make the colours in this screenprint as vibrant as possible Barns-Graham made sure that the individual coloured forms and the background were separated. Each was then printed directly onto the white of the paper rather than layering the circle and rectangular shapes on top of each other and the yellow background. The first version of this work ('Blue Light, Summer') was part of a portfolio of contemporary artworks commissioned by King’s College, Cambridge, to raise funds for the Arts Centre there. Barns-Graham made this version for herself. It is an edition of 100.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Summer (Yellow)
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date created:1999
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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measurements:54.70 x 74.00 cm
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credit line:Gift of Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5417
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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...