Terry Frost
Terry Frost | |
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Born | Terence Ernest Manitou Frost 13 October 1915 Camberwell School of Art St. Ives School of Painting |
Movement | St Ives School |
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost
Career
Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 1915, he did not become an artist until he was in his 30s. He left school aged fourteen and went to work at Curry's cycle shop and then at Armstrong Whitworth in Coventry. During World War II, he served in France, the Middle East and Greece, before joining the commandos. Whilst serving with the commandos in Crete in June 1941 he was captured and sent to various prisoner of war camps.[2] As a prisoner of war at Stalag 383 in Bavaria, he met Adrian Heath who encouraged him to paint. Commenting later he described these years as a 'tremendous spiritual experience, a more aware or heightened perception during starvation'.[3]
As soon as war was over he went to
His first exhibition was the
In 1958 while still living in Leeds and teaching at
Later he became
In the 1960s, Frost was represented by the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York.[5]
In 1992 he was elected a
A retrospective of his work was held in 2000.Personal life
He married Kathleen Clarke in 1945. They had five sons and one daughter. Two of his sons, Adrian and Anthony, also became artists, while a third son, Stephen, is a comedian and actor. His grandson Luke Frost (son of Anthony) is also an artist.
Selected works
The following list is not comprehensive but includes paintings, screenprints, sikcreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts and collages.
- Movement: Green, Black and White (1951-2) Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
- Blue Moon (1952)
- Double Quay (1952)
- Boat shapes (1954)
- Khaki and Lemon (1956)
- Red and Black linear (1967-8)
- Lace I (Trial proof) (1968)
- Red and Black Solid (1968)
- Red and Black on Green (1968)
- Red and Black on Blue (1968)
- Red and Black on Purple (1969)
- Ochre, Red, Blue (1969)
- Red, Blue, Orange on Yellow (1969)
- Blues (1969)
- Orange Dusk (1970)
- Stacked on Side (1970)
- Red and Black on the Side (1970)
- Moonship (1972)[7]
- Red, Blue, Green (1972)
- Ice Blue (1972)
- Alhambra (1972)
- Blue, Brown, Black (1981) The Country House Gallery, Burnley
- Blue, Brown, Black (1981) Ian Starr, Manchester
- Suspended Forms Red Yellow & Blue (1986)
- Variations (1989)
- The Old Lizard (1989)
- Pause of the Clock (1989)
- Colour on the Side (1989)
- Moon Rising (1989)
- The Spinster at Mass (1989)
- Tree, Tree (1989)
- Lorca Sun (1991)
- Newlyn Rhythm (1995)
- Spring Spiral screen print, Flowers Editions
- Arizona (1996) Flowers Editions, London
- Spring Spiral (1996)[8]
- Black Mon and Ochre (1997) The Country House Gallery, Burnley
- Canadian Pacific Blue (1997)
- Canadian Pacific Yellow (1997)
- Black Orchard (1997) Flowers Editions
- Colour Rhythm Newlyn (1997)
- Madron Blue Suite I (1997)
- Madron Blue Suite II (1997)
- Madron Blue Suite III (1997)
- Sundrops lithograph (1997)[9]
- Swing Red Newlyn (1998)
- Timberaine A woodcut (2000)
- Camberwell Green (2001)
- Small Yellow Timberain (2001)
- Sunbow (2002) Askew Art, Henley-on-Thames
- 3 Stripes for Red (2002) AE Art, Warwick.[10]
- Black Circle (2002)
- Blue Brad AE Art
- Long Red Yellow and Black (2002)
- Blue, Black, Red and Vertical Rhythm (2002) The Country House Gallery
- A Rare Portfolio - SS (April 2003) AE Art, Warwick
- Blue Love Tree (2003)
- Laced Sun from SS set (2003)
- Slumber Black (2003)
- Sun Tree silk screen (2003)[11]
- Three Graces etching, (2003)
- Vertical Lines screenprint (2003)[12]
- Two Models etching (2003)[13]
- Lizard Black II (2003)[14]
- Carlyon Sunshine silk screen print (2003)
- Sun and Boats (2003)[15]
See also
- List of St. Ives artists
References
- ^ "Newlyn: House and studio former home of the late Sir Terry Frost". The West Briton. 3 June 2010. Archived from the original on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "Obituary: Sir Terry Frost". The Times. London. 3 September 2003.
- ^ "Sir Terry Frost". Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ Mellow, James R., ed. (1964). "New York: The Art World". Arts Yearbook. 7. New York, NY: The Art Digest, Inc.: 111.
- ^ Artworks by or after Terry Frost, Art UK: see extended Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists biography, under "artist profile". Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ "'Moonship', Sir Terry Frost, 1972". Tate. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Spring Spiral - Sir Terry Frost". Original Prints. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Sundrops - Sir Terry Frost". Original Prints. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "3 Stripes for Red - Sir Terry Frost". Original Prints. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Sun Tree - Sir Terry Frost". Original Prints. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Vertical Lines - Sir Terry Frost". Original Prints. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Two Models - Sir Terry Frost". Original Prints. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Lizard Black II, silk screen print by Sir Terry Frost RA". Pyramid Gallery. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Sun and Boats, silk screen print by Sir Terry Frost RA". Pyramid Gallery. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr & Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
- Terry Frost: Paintings, drawings and collages, Art Council catalogue 1976–7.
- Dominic Kemp, The Prints of Sir Terry Frost RA, (Lund Humphries, 2010)
- Frances Spalding, 20th Century Painters and Sculptors Dictionary of British Art Vol.6 (Antique Collectors Club, 1990)
External links
- "Artist Sir Terry Frost dies". BBC News Online. 2 September 2003.
- "Sir Terry Frost". The Daily Telegraph. 3 September 2003.
- "Sir Terry Frost 1915–2003". Tate.
- "Terry Frost". Art Cornwall.
- "Terry Frost". Bohun Gallery.
- 103 artworks by or after Terry Frost at the Art UK site