Upper Glacier

© Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. Image credit: British Council Collection

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Barns-Graham had always worked with themes such as rock forms, line motifs and abstract reliefs which she returned to over the years. The glacier theme began in 1948 when Barns-Graham visited Grindelwald in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland; she worked on the theme for three years whilst also making purely abstract works. A similar painting to this, entitled 'Glacier Crystal, Grindelwald' (1950) belongs to the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). The artist recalled ‘The massive strength and size of the glaciers, the fantastic shapes, the contrast of solidity and transparency, the many reflected colour in strong light … This likeness to glass and transparency, combined with solid rough ridges made me wish to combine in a work all angles at once, from above, through and all around, as a bird flies, a total experience’.

British Council Collection

London

Title

Upper Glacier

Date

1950

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 39.4 x W 62.9 cm

Accession number

P175

Acquisition method

purchased from the artist, 1950

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

blc: W Barns-Graham 1950

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British Council Collection

Visual Arts, Arts Group, 10 Spring Gardens, London, Greater London SW1A 2BN England

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