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Beaches, Beatles and a broken marriage: how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham became a radical art icon

Beaches, Beatles and a broken marriage: how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham became a radical art icon
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The artist who was inspired by Swiss glaciers, the Vietnam war and her own divorce was sidelined from St Ives’ art history – but finally has a major retrospective at TateAt the centre of Tate St Ives’ newly opened retrospective of the British modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, her monumental altar-piece Glacier (Blue Cave) pulls viewers into its frozen tendons of turquoise…

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