Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Glaciers Limited Edition with Print

A Limited Edition Release of 200 Hardback Copies with Specially Commission Print and Slipcase

We are delighted to share a first look of our limited edition release of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Glaciers. Alongside an exclusive hardback copy of the book, you will receive an individually numbered digital print of Barns-Graham and the Brotherton family ascending Grindelwald Glacier in 1949, created for us by Glasgow Print Studio, presented together in a slipcase.

In May 1949, the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) visited the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland. It was a trip which would have a profound and lasting impact on her work. Charting the journey, the beautiful work it stimulated and wider questions around glacial landscapes, then and now, this publication provides insights that will expand our understanding of both an acclaimed body of work and the artist who created it.

That Barns-Graham produced her final glacier painting in 1994, some 45 years after her sole visit to Switzerland, is testament to the influence that the experience had on her. So too are her 100 or so individual glacier works - made first between 1949 and 1952 and then in revisiting the subject between 1976 and 1994. Including a complete catalogue of the glacier paintings, this book presents the definitive account of a trip that would transform the artistic imagination of one of the foremost British painters of the twentieth century.

Edited by Rob Airey, with contributions by Alice Strang, Professor Pete Nienow, Mark Cousins, Alyson Hallett, Holly Corfield Carr, Tilly Heydon and Cassia Pennington.

Hardcover | Dimensions: 26 x 22 cm | 128 pages | 125 colour and b&w illustrations

Published by Lund Humphries, 2024

ISBN  978-1-7384111-2-2

Print details: Photograph of Barns-Graham and the Brotherton Family on Grindelwald Glacier | Archival digital print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm paper, edition of 200 | 18 x 26 cm | unframed

Please note: the print does not come with frame as shown in image