About this artwork
Sunghrie was the name of one of Barns-Graham’s Siamese cats. Ann Gunn notes in her Catalogue of Barns-Graham’s prints that the artist also thought it was the name of a Tibetan River. She was very interested in Tibet and Buddhism, though the name more likely refers to the Sunghari or Songhua River in northeast China.
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Sunghrie III
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date created:2002
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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measurements:58.00 x 76.00 cm
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credit line:Gift of Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5452
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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...