American Gothic
Catalogue No. 667
Artist's CR 608
2004
Kinkell
Oil on canvas
36
x
32
inches
/
91
x
81
cm
Collection: Destroyed by fire in 2016
Provenance:
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Private collection
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Collection of Destroyed by fire in 2016
Exhibitions:
- Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 2004
- Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Kings College, Cambridge, 2005
- Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Spike Gallery, New York, 2005
- Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007
Literature:
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Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, exhibition catalogue, Bourne Fine Art, 2004
- Gerald Laing, 'Artist’s Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004
- David Eb, 'Gerald Laing at Spike', Art in America, September
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Gerald Laing 1936–2011: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 2016
The technical mastery of his technique, using a pointillist system of black painted dots, survives today as in… the haunting imagery of the defiant couple in American Gothic. To paint like this, you have to know and have loved America.
'Article for Bourne Art Gallery Exhibition, Edinburgh', Michael Spens, 2004