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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Relief Collages (1982-87)

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Relief Collages (1982-87) 5 – 30 July 2010 Private View 3 July 11am – 2pm Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) is rightly regarded as a major Modern British painter and a significant member of the St Ives School.

We have been showing her paintings, drawings and prints since the 1950s.

This group of mainly small, jewel-like relief collages is drawn from a series which the artist produced in the 1980s primarily during her winter visits to her second house and studio at Balmungo, near St Andrews.

They relate strongly to earlier larger work of the 1970s and 1980s and particularly to many which featured in her major solo show with us in 1981 making similar use of circle, square and rectangle. Her Family and Tribute series spring to mind.

This will be their first showing in Scotland and is part of our continuing relationship with the artist’s work and follows her Memorial Exhibition Paintings and Drawings 1952-2003 shown here in 2007.

We would like to thank The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust for allowing us to exhibit these works. Further information about the Trust may be had at www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk

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Collage 03 1984 acrylic on hardboard on hardboard 17.4 x 53 cms Moment 1983 acrylic on card on hardboard 19.8 x 13.7 cms Vertical Movement (Autumn) 1984 acrylic on card on hardboard 13.6 x 10 cms Collage 89 1983 oil and acrylic on card on card 15.4 x 10.4 cms Collage 134 1983 oil and acrylic on card on card 13.5 x 10 cms Painting in Relief No. 28 1982 oil and acrylic on card on card 13.8 x 20 cms Painting in Relief No. 98 1983-97 oil and acrylic on card on card 10.6 x 15.6 cms Birsay II 1986 acrylic on hardboard on hardboard 35.5 x 106 cms Crail 5 1984 oil and acrylic on card on board 15.5 x 45.5 cms

All works are for sale on receipt of this card

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16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ Tel 0131 558 1200 Email mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk Web www.scottish-gallery.co.uk Front: 1 Collage 03 1984 acrylic on hardboard on hardboard 17.4 x 53 cms