Gifts to Public Collections

 

As part of our aim to foster, protect and promote the reputation of work of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, the Trust has donated her artworks valued at over £0.75 million to a wide range of public institutions since 2007.

 

Ongoing Gift Programme

 

This ongoing gifting programme includes major gifts of original artworks to Tate, National Galleries of Scotland, Pallant House Gallery, Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Art Gallery, Pier Arts Centre, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Abbot Hall, Kendal. An illustrated list of gifts of original works can be viewed here.

Over 50 of Barns-Graham’s much admired screenprints have been also given to public galleries, educational institutions and especially healthcare providers, where their bold designs and bright colours have been particularly welcomed.

Works donated by the Trust

White, Black and Yellow (Composition February), 1957. © Wilhelmina Barns Graham-Trust

White, Black and Yellow (Composition February), 1957, Tate

Gifted to Tate, 2018

Painting with abstract large abstract shapes in blues, greens and greys. At the centre is a small black oval.

Glacier Chasm, 1951, National Galleries of Scotland

Gifted to National Galleries of Scotland, 2012

Expanding Forms (Touch Point Series) No. 1 Entrance, 1980, Pallant House Gallery

Gifted to Pallant House Gallery, 2015

Painting of abstract shapes is greens and greys

Green Skull Form I, 1951, Hepworth Wakefield

Gifted to Hepworth Wakefield, 2018

Geoff and Scruffy Series, 1956, Oil on canvas, Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Gifted to Abbot Hall Art Gallery in 2015

Rock Theme (Saint Just), 1953, Oil on canvas, Tate

Gifted to Tate, 2018

Porticello (Cape Zafferano & Rocks Sicily), 1955, gouache and pencil on paper, British Museum

Gifted to British Museum, 2022

Lava Forms Lanzarote 2, 1993. Chalk on black paper, British Museum

Gifted to British Museum, 2022