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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
(
British
, 1912–2004)
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Night Garden,
1999
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Biography
Timeline
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Literature
Timeline
1912
Born St Andrews, Fife
1932 - 1937
Edinburgh College of Art, Diploma course (Painting) DAE
1940
Went to Cornwall with award as recommended by Hubert Wellington
1942
Became member of Newlyn Society of Artists and St Ives Society of Artists
1946
First meetings of Crypt Group in her studio
1948
Worked on glacier drawings and gouaches in Switzerland
1949
Founder member of the Penwith Society of Artists
Resigned from the St Ives Society of Artists with 16 others
1951
Worked in Italy and Scilly Isles
1954 - 1955
Worked in Tuscany, Calabria and Sicily
1956 - 1957
On staff of Leeds School of Art
1960 - 1963
Studio in London
1963 - 1965
Worked in Scotland and St Ives
1963
Returned to St Ives
1984 - 1985
Working in Orkney
1989 - 1993
Visits to Lanzarote
1991
Visit to Barcelona
1992
Received Honorary Doctorate, University of St.Andrews
1999
Elected Honorary RSA
2000
Awarded Honorary Doctorate from University of Plymouth
2001
Awarded the CBE
Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of Exeter
Selected Collections
The Arts Council of Great Britain
The British Museum
The Fleming -Wyfold Art Foundation London
Glasgow Museum of Modern Art
The Governmant Art Collection
Tate Gallery
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Victoria and Albert Museum
Birmingham, Dundee, Leeds, Manchester, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Wolverhampton
The New South Wales Art Gallery, Australia
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Exhibitions
2008
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912 - 2004 & Sandra Blow 1925 - 2006: Energy in Abstraction, Art First, London
2007
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Prints and Book launch, Art First, London (solo)
2006
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), Art First, London (solo)
2005
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: New Prints, Art First, London (solo)
2004
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004: A Tribute- Recent Paintings and New Prints, Art First, London (solo)
Spoilt for Choice: A Christmas Exhibition, Art First, London
2002 - 2004
W. Barns-Graham: Painting as Celebration, Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews, travelling to Aberdeen Art Gallery; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; City Art Gallery and Museum, York; Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull; Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie; Harwick (solo)
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Tribute from Art First, Art First, London (solo)
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham – A Celebration at 90, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
2002
A Critic’s Choice (Mel Gooding), Newlyn Art Gallery
2001
W. Barns Graham Prints, Exeter University (solo)
Art First, London (solo)
Art First in Print , Art First, London
New Work from Scotland , Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames
Eigse, Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland
1999 - 2000
An Enduring Image, Tate Gallery, St. Ives (solo)
The McGeary Gallery, Brussels (solo)
1999
Liberation and Tradition – Scottish Art 1875-1963, Aberdeen Art Gallery and McMagnus Gallery, Dundee
Art First, London (solo)
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW), Edinburgh
1998 - 2004
Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Edinburgh
Curwen Print Makers , Curwen Gallery, London
Displays 1997-78, Tate St. Ives
1998
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
1997
Critics Choice , RSW, Edinburgh
Art First, London (solo)
The New Millennium Gallery, St. Ives (solo)
1996 - 1997
The National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (solo)
1996
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
Art Miami, International Art Fair, with Art First, London
William Gear Friends Past and Present , Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Art First, London (solo)
A Cornish Midsummer , Royal West of England Academy, in collaboration with Penwith Society
100 Years Context & Continuity , Newlyn Art Gallery
1995
Porthmeor Beach: A century of Images , Tate St. Ives
1994
Drawing 1945 – 1960, Art First, London (solo)
The Woof at the Door, Penzance (solo)
Painters Prints , Curwen Gallery, London
New Academy Gallery Contemporary Prints , Coach House Gallery, Guernsey
1992 - 1993
W. Barns- Graham at 80, William Jackson Gallery, London, touring to Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Dundee Art Galleries and Museum, Dundee, Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield
W. Barns- Graham at 80, William Jackson Gallery, London, touring to Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Dundee Art Galleries and Museum, Dundee, Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield
Contemporary Painters and Sculptors from Cornwall , Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
The Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (solo)
New Beginnings; Postwar British Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
1992
Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews (solo)
1991
St. Ives , Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
Scottish Drawing ,The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1990
Festival of Fifty-One , Arts Council Collection, touring exhibition
1989 - 1990
Scottish Art since 1900 , Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and on tour to Barbican Art Gallery, London
Retrospective exhibition, touring: Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, City Art Centre Edinburgh; Perth Museum and Art Gallery; Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews (solo)
1989
Scottish Gallery, London (solo)
Post-War British Art , Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
A Century of Art in Cornwall 1889-1989 , The County Museum and Art Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
Song of the Sea , Dundee Museum and Art Gallery
40 years at the Penwith , Penwith Society, St. Ives
St Ives , Beaux Arts, Bath Festival
1988 - 1990
Ancrum Gallery, Roxburghshire (solo)
1988 - 1989
Freeing the Spirit, Contemporary Scottish Abstraction, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews
1988
The Experience of Landscape , Arts Council touring exhibition
1987
Aspects of Landscape , SAC touring exhibition
Looking West , Newlyn Art Gallery and the Royal College of Art, London
Gillian Jason Gallery, London (solo)
1985
St Ives , 1939-64, The Tate Gallery, London
1984
Homage to Herbert Read , University of Kent, Canterbury
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (solo)
Henry Rothschild Exhibition, Germany (solo)
The Crawford Centre, St Andrews (solo)
1982
Art from Cornwall , Galerie Artica, Cuxhaven
1981 - 1983
Contemporary Art from Scotland , The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1981
Newlyn Society of Artists , Galerie Artica, Cuxhaven, Germany
LYC Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria (solo)
The Byre Theatre, St Andrews (solo)
St. Ives Summer Festival Exhibition , Penwith Galleries, St. Ives
1980
Contemporary Art Society Exhibition , Sothebys Edinburgh
1979 - 2003
New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives
1978
Painters in Parallel , SAC (Festival Exhibition)
The New Art Centre, London (solo)
1977
British Artists of the 60’s , The Tate Gallery, London
1976
Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives (solo)
1973 - 1989
Wills Lane Gallery , St Ives
1972
Annual Exhibition , Plymouth Society of Art (invited artist)
1971
Helen Sutherland Collection , Arts Council touring exhibition
Marjorie Parr Gallery, London (solo)
Park Square Gallery, Leeds (solo)
1970
Sheviock Gallery, Cornwall (solo)
1969
Painting 1940-1949 , SAC touring Edinburgh
1968
Richard De Marco Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
The Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford (solo)
1966
WIAC Exhibition , Whitechapel Art Gallery (invited artist)
1964
Pictures for Schools , Royal College of Art Gallery, London
International Exhibition of Works in Gouache , New York
1960
Painters from Cornwall , Plymouth City Art Gallery
Tenth anniversary of Penwith Scoiety of Art, (invited artist)
Contemporary Scottish Artists , SAC touring exhibition of Canada
British Watercolours , Waddington Gallery, London (tour to Sweeden)
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Literature
2007
Gunn, Ann, The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. A Complete Catalogue, Lund Humphries, 2007, £35
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, The Scottish Gallery, 2007
2006
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004, Important Works From Her Career, Art First, 2006, £6
2004
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912–2004, A Tribute: Recent Paintings and New Prints, 2004, £10
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004, Art First, 2004, £10
2002
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at 90: A Tribute from Art First, 2002, £8
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. A Celebration at 90, The Scottish Gallery, 2002
2001
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Paintings, Art First, 2001, £10
W. Barns-Graham - A Studio Life by Lynne Green, 2001, published by Lund Humphries, £40
1999
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: New Paintings, 1999, Art First, £5
1995
W. Barns-Graham, New Paintings, 1995, £5
1992
W. Barns-Graham at 80, William Jackson Gallery, 1992
1989
W. Barns-Graham, Retrospective 1940-1989, City of Edinburgh Museums and Art Galleries, 1989
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