Palisade, August 1959
About this artwork
From 1956 Hilton made frequent painting trips to Cornwall, and at the same time began to reintroduce figurative and landscape motifs into his abstract paintings. This is evident in this painting, where the flat, vertically arranged areas of colour are suggestive of a fence of wooden poles. The artist also began to use titles in his work again in the late 1950s, after a period of simply labelling them with the month and year of their production. Many of them make reference to Cornwall and the sea.
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artist:Roger Hilton (1911 - 1975) English
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title:Palisade, August 1959
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date created:1959
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:152.40 x 137.50 cm; Framed: 157.70 x 142.50 x 6.50 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1974
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accession number:GMA 1312
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Roger Hilton
Roger Hilton
Hilton was born in Middlesex. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and also enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle in Paris during the 1930s. Hilton joined the army in 1939 and spent the years of 1942 to 1945 as a prisoner of war. He began painting in an abstract style in the early 1950s. From...