Thursday, March 15, 2018

Terry Frost at the British Museum

Terry Frost
Abstract
1950
oil and graphite on cardboard
British Museum

Terry Frost
Abstract based on the Golden Section
1951
color monotype
British Museum

Terry Frost
Black and White Linocut
1952
linocut
British Museum

Terry Frost (1915-2003) - Abstract painter, printmaker and teacher.  Born October 1915, Lemington Spa, Warwickshire.  During army service in WWII captured at Crete in 1941, he became a prisoner of war in Bavaria where he met Adrian Heath who encouraged him to become an artist.  Studied at Camberwell School of Art under William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore in the late 1940s.  Moved to St. Ives 1950.  From 1955 taught at Bath Academy of Art, Leeds, Coventry, California, Newcastle University and Reading University (where he was artist in residence 1965), returned to Cornwall 1974.  First one-man show in 1952 at the Leicester Galleries, London; subsequently exhibited widely, both internationally and in the UK.  Royal Academician 1992, knighted 1998.

– Biographical notes from the British Museum

Terry Frost
First Silkscreen
1953
screenprint
British Museum

Terry Frost
Verticals, Winter, Leeds
ca. 1956
bodycolour
British Museum

Terry Frost
Bow Movement
1956
drypoint
British Museum

Terry Frost
Sheet of Studies
1956
watercolor, gouache, charcoal, collage
British Museum

Terry Frost
Ridge, Yorkshire
1956
drypoint
British Museum

Terry Frost
Verticals and Sun
1957
color lithograph
British Museum

Terry Frost
Verticals and Sun
1957
aquatint
British Museum

Terry Frost
Watercolor No. 1
1959
watercolor
British Museum

Terry Frost
Study for Lithograph, Orange Disk
1970
gouache on canvas fragment
British Museum

Terry Frost
Mullion
before 1985
colored chalks, watercolor
British Museum

Terry Frost
Self Portrait
1980
etching
British Museum