Sir Terry Frost Orchard Tambourines (set of 25 woodcuts) 1999
Sir Terry Frost Trewellard Suns 1989
Biography
1915
Born October 13th in Leamington Spa
1946 - 1947
Moved to Cornwall Studied at St. Ives School of Painting
1947
Began period of study at Camberwell School of Art where he was taught by, amongst others, members of the pre-war Euston Road group
1948
Began to paint abstract works Completed NDD
1952 - 1954
Visiting lecturer at the Bath Academy of Art
1956
Part-time lecturer at Leeds College of Art
1963
Part-time Lecturer at Coventry School of Art
1965
Full-time Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art, University of Reading
1970
Appointed Reader in the University of Reading
1974
Moved studio to Newlyn
1977
Professor of Painting, University of Reading Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from CNAA
1981
Retired from Reading, made Professor Emeritus
1992
Elected RA
1998
Knighted
2003
Died September 1, 2003
Exhibitions
2004
Flowers Graphics, London
2000
Angela Flowers Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London and Flowers West, Santa Monica, California
1999
New Publications, Flowers Graphics, London
1999
Ten New Abstract Paintings, Flowers East, London
1999
Small is Beautiful, Part 1: Abstract, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California
1999
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East
1998
New Paintings, Flowers East, London
1997
Belgrave Gallery, London Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
1996
Sim’s Gallery, St. Ives Flowers East, London
1995
Angela Flowers Gallery, Angela Flowers Gallery London, England The McGeary Gallery, The McGeary Gallery London, England 80th Birthday Exhibition, Paintings of the Nineties and Recent Prints, Flowers East, London Newlyn Art Gallery
1994
Adelson Galleries, Adelson Galleries New York, NY Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery Painter's Prints, Curwen Gallery British Abstract Painting, Flowers East
1993
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy Austin-Desmond Fine Art, Tate Gallery Walking around the Quay, Tate Gallery, St Ives
1992
Adelson Gallery British Abstract Artists of the 50's and 60's, Belgrave Gallery
1991
20th Century British painting and Sculpture, Belgrave Gallery
1989
St. Ives 1939-63, Tour to Japan The Presence of Painting, South Bank Center Sheffield and tour, Mappin Art Gallery Frost, Mitchell, Berkley Square Gallery Painting in the Visible World, Austin Desmond Fine Art Corsham 1946-72, Michael Parkin Fine Art and tour Post-War British Art, Austin-Desmond Oxford Gallery, Oxford Gallery Oxford, England The Belgrave Gallery, The Belgrave Gallery London, England Austin Desmond Fine Art, Austin Desmond Fine Art London, England
1988
Camberwell Artists of the 1940's and 50's, Belgrave Gallery Gillian Jason Gallery, Gillian Jason Gallery London, England
1987 - 1988
Terry Frost - Painting in the 1980s, Reding University Reading, Lincoln, Ayr, Plymouth, Newlyn, England
1987
Looking West, Newlyn Art Gallery, & the Royal College of Art
1986
British Prints of the Post-War Years, Redfine Gallery
1985
St Ives 1939-64, Tate Gallery One City Patron, Southampton Art Gallery
1984
Landscapes in Britain, Arts Council, Hayward Gallery
1982
Rufford Craft Centre, Rufford Craft Centre Nottingham, England London Regional Art Gallery, London Regional Art Gallery London, Canada
1981
New Art Centre, New Art Centre London, England
1980
New Art Centre, New Art Centre London, England Frany Wynam Galleries, Frany Wynam Galleries Vancouver, Canada Willis Lane Gallery, Willis Lane Gallery St. Ives, England Parnham House, Parnham House Dorset, England Oxford Gallery, Oxford Gallery Oxford, England Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
1978
Waddington Galleries, Waddington Galleries London, England Gallery Zygos, Gallery Zygos Cyprus Oxford Gallery, Oxford Gallery Oxford, England Pier Gallery Collection, Tate Gallery, London
1977
Retrospective Exhibition, Serpentine Gallery London, England
1974
Waddington Galleries, Waddington Galleries London, England Oxford Gallery, Oxford Gallery Oxford, England
1973
Bath Festival, Leeds Playhouse Gallery Leeds, England
1972
Arnolfini Gallery, Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, England John Moores, Exhibition 8, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1971
Waddington Galleries, Waddington Galleries London, England Dartington Hall, Dartington Hall Totnes, Devon, England Institute of Contemporary Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, England Peterloo Gallery, Peterloo Gallery Manchester, England
1970 - 1971
International Exhibition of Prints, Tokoyo British Paintings 1960-70, National Gallery of Art, Washington
1970
Bear Lane Gallery, Bear Lane Gallery Oxford, England City Art Gallery, City Art Gallery Plymouth, England
1969
Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, England Waddington Galleries, Waddington Galleries London, England John Moores Exhibition 7, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1968
Bear Lane Gallery, Bear Lane Gallery Oxford, England
1967
Queen Square Gallery, Queen Square Gallery Leeds, England Lincolnshire Association, Lincolnshire Association Lincoln, England
1965
Anolfini Gallery, Anolfini Gallery Bristol, England
1964
Retrospective Exhibition (traveled), Laing Gallery Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
1963
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Galerie Charles Lienhard Zurich, Switzerland Gallery 5, Gallery 5 Reading, England
1962
Bertha Schaffer Gallery, Bertha Schaffer Gallery New York, NY
1961
Waddington Galleries, Waddington Galleries London, England
1960
Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, Bertha Schaeffer Gallery New York, NY
1958
Leicester Galleries, Leicester Galleries London, England
1956
Leicester Galleries, Leicester Galleries London, England
1952
Leicester Galleries, Leicester Galleries London, England
1947
G.R. Downing's Bookshop, G.R. Downing's Bookshop St. Ives, England
1944
Learnington Public Library, Learnington Public Library Learnington, England
Literature
1983
Norrie, J., Terry Frost, Andreas Charalambides, Arts Review, September 1983
1982
Lewis, David, in introduction to exhibition catalogue Terry Frost, Recent Paintings May 21-July 4 1982, London Regional Art Gallery, Canada
1982
Lewis, A., 'British Avant Garde Painting 1945-1956 - Part 1', Artscribe, March 1982
1982
McGregan, C., Rufford Craft Centre Exhibition, Arts Review, March, 1982
1981
Davies, P., 'Some notes on the St.Ives School', Art Monthly, July-August, 1981
1978
Vaizey, M., Terry Frost: Works on paper', Arts Review, January
1972
Finn, Andrea, 'Terry Frost', Southern Arts Diary and Review, April 1972
1972
Elderfield, John, Studio International, January 1972
1954
Alloway, Lawrence ed. Nine Abstract Artists: their Works and Theory, London, 1954
Britsh Painting and Sculpture 1960-70. Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Gallery London, and National Gallery Washington
Brown, David- introduction to exhibition catalogue Terry Frost Paintings, drawings and collages 1976/77, Arts Council of Great Britain
Lewis, David, intorduction to catalogue of St. Ives 1939-64, Tate Gallery, London
