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This composition is dominated by a series of black vertical lines against a white ground, which occasionally Frost has blocked out with colour, principally red, black, orange and yellow. The sparseness of the composition creates a flat non-figurative image.

Frost describes the experience of seeing the Yorkshire Dales in winter as an inspiration for this work. Snow flattened his perspective and created an irregular lattice of the dry stone walls of the fields. The image is a response to Frost's sense of being dwarfed by the landscape.

The Pier Arts Centre

Stromness

Title

Red, Black and White

Date

1955–1956

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 72 x W 91.7 cm

Accession number

PAC 8

Acquisition method

gift from Margaret Gardiner, 1979

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

1. '↑ TOP / RED BLACK / ON [?] WHITE [? this last part of the text is obscured by a label] / 'Terry Frost'. 2. '↑ / DEC / JAN / 55-6'. 3. '↑'. 4. gallery label, part removed (unidentified). 5. exhibition label for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Out of Place: Works from the Pier Arts Centre collection). 6. exhibition label (artist name and title). 7. '19'. 8. exhibition label for Tate (Pier Gallery Collection 20th Sept-29th Oct 1978). 9. exhibition label for Aberdeen Art Gallery an

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