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Anthony FryCharming Anthony Fry Chalk Drawing, 19841984
1984
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About the Item
Anthony Fry (British, 1927-2016)
View Through a Window, 1984
Chalk on paper
Sight: 18 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.
Framed: 25 3/4 x 22 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.
Provenance:
Private New York Collection
Purchased from the below gallery by Reader's Digest, 1984
Browse & Darby, London
The Artist
Anthony Fry was born on 6 June 1927 in Theydon Bois, Essex, to Dr Lewis Salisbury Fry (1898–1968) and Margaret Mary Fry (1898–1986). Dr Fry was a descendant of the Quaker founders of the Bristol-based chocolate business J.S. Fry & Sons.
Fry attended The Downs School, where he was taught English by the poet W.H. Auden and painting by the artist Maurice Feild. He completed his secondary education at Bryanston where he was taught sculpture by Donald Potter and painting by Elizabeth Muntz.
Fry went on to study painting at Edinburgh College of Art and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts under William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Gowing.
In 1950 Fry won the Prix de Rome for his painting The Betrayal, and with the award a two-year scholarship at the British School at Rome. The school's Director of Fine Art Derek Hill encouraged Fry to travel throughout Italy during his residency. On his return to the UK Fry took up a teaching post at the Bath Academy of Art, then located at Corsham Court in Wiltshire, alongside Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, William Scott and Howard Hodgkin (the artist's cousin).
In 1957 Fry achieved early success at The Leicester Galleries in London with a series of large canvasses of dancing figures which the art historian and critic John Russell described in the book Private View as "one of the most individual achievements of British painting in the 1950s".
From 1961 to 1963 a Harkness Fellowship took Fry to the United States where he was greatly influenced by the American Abstract Impressionists, notably Mark Rothko and Morris Louis.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Fry taught painting at Chelsea School of Art. During this period he made several long painting trips to Malta, Spain and Morocco and showed his work regularly at exhibitions in London.
From 1982 to 1983 Fry was the recipient of the Lorne Fellowship.
In 1994 Fry began working on a large body of work of paintings inspired by a visit to southern India. For the next twelve years he would spend the winters in Fort Cochin, Kerala.
In an essay entitled 'A Certain Tradition of Heat', John Berger wrote: "Fry's pictures – like all good visual art – defy words. With words we cannot get nearer to them than a map can get to a landscape. We can enter them only with our eyes. Once within them, the eyes may tell the skin something. Once within, the eyes may see even with the eyelids shut."
Fry was interviewed extensively about his life by Cathy Courtney for the Artists Lives series for the British Library 'National Life Story Collection'. (bio from wiki)
- Creator:Anthony Fry (1927 - 2016, British)
- Creation Year:1984
- Dimensions:Height: 23.75 in (60.33 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
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- Condition:Not examined outside the frame.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: Law firm1stDibs: LU2211216752342
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