About this artwork
In each of the prints in the 'Time Series', the artist used a large circle and different numbers of vertical bars in different arrangements and colour combinations. Here she incorporates a spiral to give the sense of movement. Barns-Graham worked on this series in 1999, but this work was editioned posthumously in 2006.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Runabout Time
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date created:2006 (editioned posthumously)
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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measurements:56.00 x 76.00 cm
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credit line:Presented by The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5458
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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...
