GERALD LAING

Milbuie

Catalogue raisonné no. 268

Artist's CR 257

1969

Kinkell

Painted Steel

33 x 36 x144 inches / 0 cm , each unit, six units

Exhibitions:
• Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1970
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• Monumental American Sculpture, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 1970
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Literature:
• Monumental American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1970
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• Gerald Laing and Alasdair Hamilton, 1971: Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1971
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Selected Citations and Comments

In 1968-69 I made a series of pieces with the generic title Gold Standard, of which this is an example. These represented a change in that they described volume physically. The individual components, however, were still relatively slender. A version of this piece made in Scotland produced a further change, probably in response to the new, physically more impressive environment of the Highlands. The work became heavier, stronger, larger, and, as a concomitant of this, I became less concerned with very high finishes.

Gerald Laing, 1971: Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1971