City Art

Out for errands in the early afternoon - had time to visit the City Art gallery for the first time for a while. There's still scaffolding on the internal stair, though there are two new exhibits opening shortly. The new accessions in the basement were worth seeing - focus on the Bridges, though there are other things. 

Text from the caption on this picture 
"Untitled - Firth of Forth Series
acrylic on canvas, 1996-1997 Wilhelmina Barns-Graham HRSA, CBE (1912-2004)
Despite being born in Scotland, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is closely associated with the St Ives School. She moved to Cornwall in 1940, a few years after finishing her studies at Edinburgh College of Art, and found the close-knit artists' community a fertile environment for creative experimentation. Working and exhibiting alongside Modernists like Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicolson, she developed an increasingly abstract style.
This painting dates from late in her career, and is based on the experience of crossing the Forth Rail Bridge. The intersecting orange-red forms evoke the iconic structure of the bridge.
After Barns-Graham's death in 2004, the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust (now the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust) began managing her estate. The Trust presented Untitled - Firth of Forth Series to the City Art Centre in 2014 as part of its efforts to strengthen the artist's representation in public collections around the UK.
Presented by the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust, through the Art Fund, 2014"

Adding .. there's an exhibit at the Fruitmarket gallery (across the road from the City Art centre) video and show until 27th November .. would have seen this too, but the gallery was closed when I was passing.