As one of the original wave of Pop artists Gerald Laing produced some of the most significant works of the British Pop movement. In London during the early 60`s he pioneered the painting of enormous canvases based on newspaper photographs of models, astronauts and film stars.
Sculptures by gerald laing
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PUBLICATIONS
Gerald Laing, Kinkell: The Reconstruction of a Scottish Castle,DMT 42 (with Galina Golikova), 1967, pub. Editions Domberger, Stuttgart
Duke City Realty (with Galina Golikova), 1973, pub Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Albequerque, NM
Latimer New Dimensions, London. 1974: and Arduille House, Scotland, 1985
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aaron Scharf, Creative Photography, ed. John Lewis, Studio Vista, London, 1965Mario Amaya, Pop as Art, Studio Vista, London, 1965
Lucy Lippard, Pop Art, Frederick A. Prager, New York, 1966
Aldo Pellegrini, New Tendencies in Art, Crown Publishing Company, New York, 1966
Alan Weller, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1967
Sandra Pinto and Pio Manzu, Nuove Tecniche D`Immagine, Alfieri edizioni d`Arte, Venice, 1967
Christopher Finch, Image as Language, Penguin, London, 1969
Alastair Mackintosh, Gerald Laing Retrospective, SNGMA, Edinburgh, 1971
William Peterson, Artspace - Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly, Artspace, Albuquerque, 1976-77
Michael Compton, Pop Art, Hamlyn Publishing Group, London and New York, 1970
Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi and John McCoubrey, The Highway, ed. Stephen S. Prokopoff, Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1970
Edward Lucie Smith, Art Now, eds Mariella de Battisti and Marisa Mellis, William Morrow and Co. Inc.. New York, 1977
Douglas Hall, Sculpture at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, Gerald Laing, Kinkell, 1978
Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963-83. ed. P.A.E. Day, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 1983
W.I. Strachan, Open Air Sculpture in Britain, A. Zwemmer Ltd in assoc. with Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1984
The Tate Gallery Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London, 1986
Babette Peters, Produktionsasthetische Probleme zeit genossicher schottischer Bildhauerei, ed. Peter Lang, Frankfurtam-Maine, 1986
Marco Livingstone, Pop Art: A Continuing History, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990
Wendy Kaplan (ed.), Scotland Creates: 5000 Years of Art and Design, Weidenfeld and Nicholson et al. London, 1990
Fiona Pearson (ed.), Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland, 1540-1990, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1991
David Mellor, The Sixties Art Scene in London, Phaidon Press in assoc. with Barbican Art Galleries, London 1990
Eugene Rosenberg, Architect`s Choice - Art in Architecture in Great Britain since 1945, Thomas and Hudson 1992
Laurent Gervereau and David Mellor, `les Sixties` Musee D`Histoire Contemporain, Paris, 1996
Ed. Francisco Capelo, `The Berardo Collection` Sintra Museum of Modern Art Portugal, 1996
Cultural Offensive. John A Walker, Pluto Press, 1998
Pop Art US/UK Connections 1956-1966. David Brauer, Jim Edwards and others. Menil Collection, Houston 2001, pub. Hatje Cantz
Pop Impressions Europe/USA. Wendy Weitman, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2002, pub. Harry N Abrams
Art and Celebrity, John A Walker, Pluto Press 2003,PUBLICATIONS
Gerald Laing, Kinkell: The Reconstruction of a Scottish Castle,DMT 42 (with Galina Golikova), 1967, pub. Editions Domberger, Stuttgart
Duke City Realty (with Galina Golikova), 1973, pub Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Albequerque, NM
Latimer New Dimensions, London. 1974: and Arduille House, Scotland, 1985
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aaron Scharf, Creative Photography, ed. John Lewis, Studio Vista, London, 1965Mario Amaya, Pop as Art, Studio Vista, London, 1965
Lucy Lippard, Pop Art, Frederick A. Prager, New York, 1966
Aldo Pellegrini, New Tendencies in Art, Crown Publishing Company, New York, 1966
Alan Weller, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1967
Sandra Pinto and Pio Manzu, Nuove Tecniche D`Immagine, Alfieri edizioni d`Arte, Venice, 1967
Christopher Finch, Image as Language, Penguin, London, 1969
Alastair Mackintosh, Gerald Laing Retrospective, SNGMA, Edinburgh, 1971
William Peterson, Artspace - Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly, Artspace, Albuquerque, 1976-77
Michael Compton, Pop Art, Hamlyn Publishing Group, London and New York, 1970
Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi and John McCoubrey, The Highway, ed. Stephen S. Prokopoff, Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1970
Edward Lucie Smith, Art Now, eds Mariella de Battisti and Marisa Mellis, William Morrow and Co. Inc.. New York, 1977
Douglas Hall, Sculpture at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, Gerald Laing, Kinkell, 1978
Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963-83. ed. P.A.E. Day, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 1983
W.I. Strachan, Open Air Sculpture in Britain, A. Zwemmer Ltd in assoc. with Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1984
The Tate Gallery Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London, 1986
Babette Peters, Produktionsasthetische Probleme zeit genossicher schottischer Bildhauerei, ed. Peter Lang, Frankfurtam-Maine, 1986
Marco Livingstone, Pop Art: A Continuing History, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990
Wendy Kaplan (ed.), Scotland Creates: 5000 Years of Art and Design, Weidenfeld and Nicholson et al. London, 1990
Fiona Pearson (ed.), Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland, 1540-1990, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1991
David Mellor, The Sixties Art Scene in London, Phaidon Press in assoc. with Barbican Art Galleries, London 1990
Eugene Rosenberg, Architect`s Choice - Art in Architecture in Great Britain since 1945, Thomas and Hudson 1992
Laurent Gervereau and David Mellor, `les Sixties` Musee D`Histoire Contemporain, Paris, 1996
Ed. Francisco Capelo, `The Berardo Collection` Sintra Museum of Modern Art Portugal, 1996
Cultural Offensive. John A Walker, Pluto Press, 1998
Pop Art US/UK Connections 1956-1966. David Brauer, Jim Edwards and others. Menil Collection, Houston 2001, pub. Hatje Cantz
Pop Impressions Europe/USA. Wendy Weitman, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2002, pub. Harry N Abrams
Art and Celebrity, John A Walker, Pluto Press 2003
1936 - Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1953/55 - Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
1955/60 - Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
1960/64 - St. Martins School of Art, London
1964/69 - Lived and worked in New York
1965 - Artist in residence at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Colorado
1969/70 - Established Tapestry Workshop at Kinkell Castle which operated until 1975
1972 - Artist in residence at the Aspen Centre for the Visual Arts, Colorado
1976/77 - Visiting Professor of Painting and Sculpture at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1978 - Established bronze foundry at Kinkell Castle with the assistance of the late George Mancini
1983/87 - Taught sculpture at Columbia University, New York
1987-98 - Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland
The National Gallery, London
The Tate Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edin
Glasgow Art Gallery
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
The Scottish Art Council
The Standard Life Assurance Company, Edinburgh
Inverness Museum
Broad Quay House, Bristol
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Smithsonian Institute, Washington
The Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Indianapolis Museum
The Denver Museum
Gelsenkirchen Museum, Germany
Nagaoka Museum, Japan
The Government of Sierra Leone
The Universities of New York, Harvard, Brandeis, Cornell, Denver, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Aberdeen, Strathclyde and others
