Gift to the British Museum
We are delighted to announce a major gift of Barns-Graham works on paper from the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust to the British Museum. The ten works date between 1948 and 2000, spanning her long career and representing her use of a wide range of media and life-long commitment to drawing.
10 Drawings
This latest donation from the Trust’s ongoing programme of gifts to public collections, includes an early offset drawing of St Ives, a gestural Spanish gouache from 1958, drawings from her travels to Italy and Lanzarote and a late acrylic from the Scorpio Series. They will join three Barns-Graham works already in the British Museum permanent collection.
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Museum Magazine Highlight
To mark the Gift, Curator of Western Modern and Contemporary Graphic Art, Jennifer Ramkalawon, has written a 4-page introductory article for the Winter edition of the British Museum Magazine, the first page features the earliest work in the Gift, Mevagissey I from 1948. It is hoped that a selection from the Gift will go on display at the British Museum early next year.
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Works Gifted to the British Museum
![Lime and Flame, gouache on paper, 1958, British Museum © Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/584-350x320.jpg)
Lime and Flame, 1958, gouache on paper
![Mevagissey I 1948 pen, ink, wash on paper 41 x 49 cm BGT1395](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mevagissey20BGT1395-350x320.jpg)
Mevagissey I, 1948, Pen, ink and wash on paper, 41 x 49 cm
![](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/166-350x320.jpg)
Seventeen Lines, 1982, pen, ink and oil on board
![](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/718-350x320.jpg)
Lava Muerte, Lanzarote, 1992, pencil on paper
![](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/752-350x320.jpg)
Clay Workings, Chiusure, 1954, pencil and tempera on paper
![](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1098-350x320.jpg)
Lava Forms Lanzarote 2, 1993. Chalk on black paper
![](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1682-350x320.jpg)
Porticello (Cape Zafferano & Rocks Sicily), 1955, gouache and pencil on paper
![](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2302-350x320.jpg)
San Gimignano, 1955, pencil and oil on paper
![](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2921-350x320.jpg)
Untitled, 2000, acrylic on paper
![](https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6214-350x320.jpg)