About this artwork
Barns-Graham made several versions of this image in various media and it proved so popular that she decided to make it as an etching. The artist explained of the image: ‘It’s eight lines… of sand dune or wave movements, very simple, starting with a straight line and then building up into waves crisscrossing, just in line.’
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Eight Lines II
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date created:2001
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materials:Etching on paper
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measurements:57.50 x 76.00 cm
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credit line:Gift of Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5404
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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...
