About this artwork
Barns-Graham made three ‘Playing Games Series’ in collaboration with Carol Robertson at Graal Press and the title refers as much to the artist as it does to the colours and design. Robertson had suggested a method to Barns-Graham of placing each brush mark on an individual sheet of acetate which could then be reshuffled to create new combinations. This allowed the artist to produce a large number of different prints using the same acetates rather than having to remake them each time. Each acetate had its own screen which meant that many of her prints involved multiple screens. The artist experimented with the way in which slight changes she made to the colours in each print affected the colours around it.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Cobalt and Orange Playing Games
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date created:2007 (editioned posthumously)
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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measurements:29.50 x 40.00 cm
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credit line:Presented by The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5431
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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...