About this artwork
The painted versions of this wave motif sold out so quickly that Barns-Graham decided to make it into an etching to enable her to make several copies at once. This is an edition of 70. Peculiarly, this work was made at a time in Barns-Graham’s career when she was making her most colourful, expressive and vibrant prints. Although Barns-Graham revealed in interviews that this work was inspired by her observations while walking along St Andrews’ East Sands, by giving no clues in the title, the viewer is left to decide what sort of waves they are; whether seismograph, musical octave, hillside or sea.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-GrahamScottish (1912 - 2004)
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title:Six Lines
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date created:2002
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materials:Etching on paper
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measurements:37.70 x 57.60 cm
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credit line:Gift of Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5405
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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...
