Tom Cross trained at the Slade School in London and then spent two years travelling and painting in Italy and France on Rome and French government scholarships. On his return he worked in Wales as Assistant Director of the Welsh Arts Council and later became Senior Lecturer in Painting at Reading University. In 1976 he became Principal of the Falmouth School of Art, a post which he held until 1987.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Early times1. Nicholson, Wood and Wallis2. Traditional and modern: St Ives and London3. Wartime in St Ives4. Artists gather in St Ives5. The Crypt Group and the Penwith Society; the Festival of Britain in London and St Ives6. Post-war Britain; Nicholson's growing reputation7. Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leech and Denis Mitchell8. Peter Lanyon9. The development of abstraction; Terry Frost10. International influences: Paris and New York; Peter Heron11. Bryan Wynter, Alan Davie and Paul Feiler12. St Ives in the 1950s13. Roger Hilton14. The importance of St IvesNotes and referencesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex

Tom Cross trained at the Slade School in London and then spent two years travelling and painting in Italy and France on Rome and French government scholarships. On his return he worked in Wales as Assistant Director of the Welsh Arts Council and later became Senior Lecturer in Painting at Reading University. In 1976 he became Principal of the Falmouth School of Art, a post which he held until 1987.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Early times1. Nicholson, Wood and Wallis2. Traditional and modern: St Ives and London3. Wartime in St Ives4. Artists gather in St Ives5. The Crypt Group and the Penwith Society; the Festival of Britain in London and St Ives6. Post-war Britain; Nicholson's growing reputation7. Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leech and Denis Mitchell8. Peter Lanyon9. The development of abstraction; Terry Frost10. International influences: Paris and New York; Peter Heron11. Bryan Wynter, Alan Davie and Paul Feiler12. St Ives in the 1950s13. Roger Hilton14. The importance of St IvesNotes and referencesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex

Tom Cross trained at the Slade School in London and then spent two years travelling and painting in Italy and France on Rome and French government scholarships. On his return he worked in Wales as Assistant Director of the Welsh Arts Council and later became Senior Lecturer in Painting at Reading University. In 1976 he became Principal of the Falmouth School of Art, a post which he held until 1987.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Early times1. Nicholson, Wood and Wallis2. Traditional and modern: St Ives and London3. Wartime in St Ives4. Artists gather in St Ives5. The Crypt Group and the Penwith Society; the Festival of Britain in London and St Ives6. Post-war Britain; Nicholson's growing reputation7. Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leech and Denis Mitchell8. Peter Lanyon9. The development of abstraction; Terry Frost10. International influences: Paris and New York; Peter Heron11. Bryan Wynter, Alan Davie and Paul Feiler12. St Ives in the 1950s13. Roger Hilton14. The importance of St IvesNotes and referencesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex