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Surprise Series No. 4

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 2000

The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Surprise Series No. 4, 2000

The work has a very simple but dynamic composition. The artist has described her work as a 'celebration of life, joy, the importance of colour, form, space and texture. Brushstrokes that can be happy, risky, thin, fat, fluid and textured'.

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Title of artwork, date

Surprise Series No. 4, 2000

Date supported

2002

Medium and material

Acrylic on arches paper

Dimensions

58 x 76.8

Grant

1500

Total cost

6000

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