The red ground symbolises blood split over the city during its many conflicts.

He looks like a crumpled heap, black against the red ground.

On the red ground behind the furnace, there are two wheaten ears.

The earliest works include a 1960 painting with large orange dots against a dark red ground.

She composed herself, a red and gold figure on a red ground.

There was more flesh than grass and only the two Roman cohorts moved over the red ground.

Looking down, he saw himself lying on the red ground, broken and smoldering.

Ms. Bruce's animal prints also come on blue, green or red ground, sometimes all in one suit.

Near the buildings a stand of trees poked out of the bright red ground.

The barren red ground below him now had never known the touch of human purpose.