By Malcolm Morley
Located in Surfside, FL
Malcolm Morley (British, b. 1931)
Silkscreen screenprint
Title: Marine Sergeant at Valley Forge
Hand signed lower right. on BFK Rives paper.
Provenance: Estate of Roger Prigent - Malmaison. (from Kornblee Gallery, photo of label but label is not included)
Image: 19 1/4"H x 16" W; Sheet: 30 1/4"H x 22 1/2" W.
Printer: Chiron Press (New York, NY)
Date: 1969
Malcolm Morley (1931-2018) is an English artist now living in the United States. He is best known as a photorealist. Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood—after his home was blown up by a bomb during the Blitz in World War II, his family was homeless for a time—and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison. After release, he studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at the Royal College of Art (1955–1957), where his fellow students included Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. In 1956, he saw an exhibition of contemporary American art at the Tate Gallery, and began to produce paintings in an abstract expressionist style.
In the mid 1960s, Morley briefly taught at Ohio State University, and then moved back to New York City, where he taught at SUNY Stony Brook from 1970 through 1974 and the School of Visual Arts. In the early 1980s he was married to the Brazilian artist Marcia Grostein who, during that short and intense period, had a significant influence on his work, especially on his well known beach scenes watercolors...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Malcolm Morley Prints and Multiples
MaterialsLithograph, Screen