Roger Hilton

British painter Roger Hilton (1911–1975) began his career as a figurative artist, yet in the 1950s he became involved in the school of abstraction that emerged from St. Ives, Cornwall, along with artists Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Barbara Hepworth, and Terry Frost. From this point Hilton switched constantly between abstract and figurative painting, including the exuberant nudes th...