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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
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Biography
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1912 - 2004 In middle age,
Barns-Graham (always Willie to those who knew her) was a worried woman,
depressed by personal problems and, as a painter, oppressed by sexist,
classist and envious undercurrents in the artistic community of St Ives,
Cornwall, where she had made he home since 1940. She was a
prolific and prominent British abstract painter who was a member of the
influential St Ives group of artists during the 1940's that included
sculptor Barbara Hepworth, and who continued to paint into her 90's. |
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