Green Skull Form I and Glacier
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 1951 and 1951-77
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is celebrated as one of the foremost British abstract painters of the 20th century. She studied and worked in Scotland and in 1940 moved to Cornwall, where she became a member of the St Ives School of artists. There she met and worked alongside the painter Ben Nicholson and sculptor Barbara Hepworth.
These two depictions of subjects from nature – Green Skull Form I (1951) and Glacier (1951-77) – show the influence of the St Ives artists on Barns-Graham’s work. They now join the collection of the Hepworth Wakefield, where they have many resonances with the gallery’s holdings of work by Hepworth and her circle.
More information
Title of artwork, date
Green Skull Form I and Glacier, 1951 and 1951-77
Date supported
2018
Medium and material
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
50.5 x 60.6 and unknown dimensions
Gifted by
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust
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