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British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain. This unrivalled publication, fully updated in 2011 to cover the artist’s final years, charts Barns-Graham’s remarkable artistic life, including discussion of her beginnings in Scotland and her long association with St Ives, the Cornish town made internationally famous by the avant-garde artists who migrated there at the outbreak of the Second World War. Arriving in Cornwall just months after the modernists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo, Barns-Graham was quickly absorbed into their inner circle. She was subsequently one of the Crypt Group of young moderns, and a founder member of the breakaway Penwith Society of Arts.
Looking at Barns-Graham in the round, Lynne Green explores the importance of her Scottish identity and her bold experimentation with abstraction. Barns-Graham was working right up to her death with the energy and enthusiasm usually associated with the young; this book celebrates her considerable contribution to the history of British art.
Lynne Green is an art historian whose specialist fields are British modernism and contemporary art. She was the co-founder and former editor of Contemporary Art (later Contemporary) magazine and was formerly an exhibition organiser at the Hayward Gallery before becoming curator of Southampton City Art Gallery. Her previous publications include Painting with Smoke: David Roberts Raku Potter (2000, revised edition 2009) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art (2008).