Two Vermilions, Green and Purple in Red
Heron moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, in the 1950s. However, his artistic career developed from earlier experiences as a designer in his father’s silk business and at the Bernard Leach Pottery. Heron also gained artistic insights through relations with key figures such as Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore. Heron’s visual practice varied throughout his career from striped vertical and horizontal compositions, linear still-lives, to his later compositions of simple forms which were contrasted through colour.
Even when he eliminated recognisable subject matter, Heron’s abstractions stem from his observations of the visual world. Every shape is recognisable in land, sea, or sky, and all colours are natural, in some sense of the word. Hard as he may resist, a piece such as this could be considered a landscape with the right frame of mind.
Even when he eliminated recognisable subject matter, Heron’s abstractions stem from his observations of the visual world. Every shape is recognisable in land, sea, or sky, and all colours are natural, in some sense of the word. Hard as he may resist, a piece such as this could be considered a landscape with the right frame of mind.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 75/1969/1
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Common Name
- Two Vermilions, Green and Purple in Red
- Simple Name
- painting
- Inscription Transcription
- Patrick Heron Two Vermillions, Green and Purple in Red 48 in x 60 in
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Town
- St Ives
- Production County
- Cornwall
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 03/1965
- Production Person Initials
- Patrick
- Production Person Surname
- Heron
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
