About this artwork
This image was printed posthumously by master printmaker Carol Robertson at Graal Press, who had worked closely with Barns-Graham from 1998 up until the artist’s death in 2004. It was printed in 2007 as an edition of 25. From the late 1950’s Barns-Graham was making work that focused on the form and composition of the brushstroke, and she regularly used the motif in her work. 'Two Black Brushstrokes' is a reduced and pared-back version of her earlier brushstroke works which were expressive and layered colourfully with other shapes and symbols. This distillation of form was a characteristic of the print-works that Barns-Graham’s made in her late 80’s and early 90’s.
Updated before 2020
-
artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
-
title:Two Black Brushstrokes
-
date created:2007 (editioned posthumously)
-
materials:Screenprint on paper
-
measurements:58.00 x 76.00 cm
-
object type:
-
credit line:Presented by The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
-
accession number:GMA 5462
-
gallery:
-
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...