Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) arrived in St Ives in 1940, joining a circle of artists—Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and Peter Lanyon among them—who had made the Cornish town a center of British modernism. She would remain there for the next 60 years, drawing inspiration from the surrounding landscape while endlessly experimenting with color and form. A visit to Switzerland’s Grindelwald Glacier in 1949 proved decisive. Fascinated by the shifting patterns of ice and light, she began a series of paintings that marked a departure from her earlier work. Now, Tate St Ives is presenting the largest retrospective of Barns-Graham’s career to date, bringing together more than 170 paintings, drawings, and archival materials, and moving from her early landscapes to the brilliantly colored “Scorpio” paintings of her final years. —Elena Clavarino