Three Elements
About this artwork
The image for this print was made and approved by Barns-Graham in 2002 when she was 89 but it hadn’t been printed by the time of her death in 2004. Graal Press, the Scottish master printmakers, whom Barns-Graham had worked closely and extensively with in her final years, printed the image posthumously as an edition of 25 in 2006. This piece displays a slight shift in her work with new shapes and composition, making it seem as though, despite her age, had she lived longer her style would have continued to evolve.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Three Elements
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date created:2006 (editioned posthumously)
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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measurements:58.00 x 76.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5425
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subject:
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...