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Portrait of Malcolm Morley II (etched glass and lithography) 1976

  • Portrait of Malcolm Morley II (etched glass and lithography)
  • Catalogue raisonné no. 384
  • Artist's CR 362a
  • Ingrams and Halliwell no. 65
  • 1976
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Etched Glass over lithography (lithography by Robert Arber)
  • Edition of 15
  • 19.2 x 15.2 inches / 49 x 39 cm

Selected Citations and Comments

I first saw the etched glass technique on the windows of a customised van in New Mexico, where I spent a year in 1976-7 teaching at the University. In these works I used it to extend the possibilities of printmaking. The imagery is figurative and highly stylised.

Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 1983