Goodbye Johnny (30th July 2000)

Artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (St Andrews, Scotland, 1912 - 2004)

Date30th July 2000

Mediumacrylic on paper

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsPaper Size: 57.8 x 75.5cm
Frame: 80.8 x 99.6cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 2002 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions and the Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG013997

Keywords

About MeThis work epitomises the apparent simplicity and directness of the late work of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. The calculation of her earlier work has given way to a more organic creative process, where pleasure in the medium and in colour is central. Simple areas of blue, applied with the minimum of visible brushstrokes in two broad areas on the paper, leave the viewer to interact with the very basic colour and pattern harmonies.

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Typifying the artist's less complicated later work, the possible symbolism of the left panel contrasts with the simplicity of the deeper blue panel, giving a feeling of the ocean.