Terry Frost Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné LIMITED EDITION WITH PRINT
- Artist: Terry Frost
- Published: 2010
- Publisher: Lund Humphries, London
- Edition: First
- Format: Limited Edition Hardback
- Height: 27cm
- Pages: 304
- Illustrations: Includes 247 colour and 38 b&w illustrations
£425.00
Add to basketTerry Frost Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné LIMITED EDITION WITH PRINT
This is the special edition of Terry Frost Prints: A catalogue raisonné which incorporates a hitherto uneditioned colour etching by the artist in an edition of 100 exclusively for this publication and packaged with the book in a slipcase.
Painter, printmaker and teacher Sir Terry Frost RA (1915-2003) was a key figure in the development of British twentieth-century abstract art. He was also a prolific printmaker, and this important publication brings together, for the first time, a complete catalogue of the artist's prints. The result is a colourful visual history of Frost's remarkable printmaking career.
Discovering a natural ability to capture likenesses, Frost began to explore his artistic talents when he was a prisoner of war. During the late 1940s, he honed and developed his artistic skills as a student at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. Dividing his time between the thriving art scenes of London and St Ives during the 1950s, Frost embraced abstraction and soon established himself as a leading British artist - a reputation which is still felt today.
Prints were an essential element of Frost's oeuvre - he believed that painting and printmaking were inseparable and that each medium informed the other. The importance of printmaking within his evolution as an abstract artist is borne out by the sumptuous colour images reproduced here. Combining scholarship with arresting imagery, Terry Frost Prints offers both reference value and visual delight and as such is an essential purchase for all those interested in this key British artist.
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Artists Biography
Sir Terry Frost RA was one of Britain's most successful and highly acclaimed artists of the Twentieth Century. His colourful and exuberant paintings gave a popular dimension to the landscape-orientated abstract art produced by the post-war St Ives artist colony.
He was born 13 October 1915 at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and attended evening classes in art at the age of sixteen.
However Sir Terry Frost only really started painting while bring held as a prisoner of war in Germany in 1943. A fellow inmate, the Slade-trained painter Adrian Heath helped him discover his artistic talent during the four years he spent as a Prisoner of War.
On his return to England he studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts enjoying the flourishing artistic scenes of London and St Ives. In 1945 he married Kathleen Clarke. By the late 1950's Sir Terry Frost had become established as a leading abstract painter exhibiting regularly in London and throughout the world. From the mid 1950’s he was also involved in academia teaching at various UK universities.
In 1974 Sir Terry Frost RA moved permanently to Newlyn in Cornwall where his love of the region proved a rich source of inspiration for much of his work. He was elected a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1992 and received a knighthood in 1998.
Sir Terry Frost died on 1st September 2003.
