Newlyn Rhythm

Location

Country: Turkey
City: Istanbul
Place: British Consulate-General

Sir Terry Frost was born in Leamington Spa. He spent four years as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, during which time he met, and was taught by, the artist Adrian Heath. After the war, he studied at Camberwell School of Arts, London and went on to settle in St Ives in 1950, where he worked as assistant to Barbara Hepworth. In 1951, after meeting the artist Roger Hilton, he began to use construction and collage in his work and over the next decade became one of Britain’s leading abstract painters. In 1952 Frost’s first major exhibition in London led to several decades of solo and group exhibitions around the world. In 1960 he visited the USA and met leading Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, and art critic Clement Greenberg. Knighted in 1998 for his contribution to British art, Frost continued to make paintings and prints as well as designing ceramics and textiles right up to his death in 2003.

Places

England, Cornwall

Subjects

topography, abstract

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)

Title

Newlyn Rhythm

Portfolio Title

35 Artists Printmaking, Folio 1

Edition

33/50

Date

1982

Medium

Screenprint

Acquisition

Purchased from the Royal College of Art, August 1985

Inscription

bl: 33/50 br: Terry Frost 82

GAC number

16381/C