Portrait of Malcolm Morley II (etched glass and lithography)
Catalogue No. 384
Artist's CR 362a
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
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: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 1983