Born in London, England, Malcolm Morley became a photo-realist* painter of subjects that he did in a mocking tone to rail against the seriousness with which people took them. He experimented with... Read full biography
Born in London, England, Malcolm Morley became a photo-realist* painter of subjects that he did in a mocking tone to rail against the seriousness with which people took them. He experimented with many mediums and styles including expressionist abstraction and figurative. He is known as a colorful... Read full biography
Born in London, England, Malcolm Morley became a photo-realist* painter of subjects that he did in a mocking tone to rail against the seriousness with which people took them. He experimented with many mediums and styles including expressionist abstraction and figurative. He is known as a colorful character with many stories circulating about him including brief jail sentences for carousing and rages that led to mass destruction in his studio. He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1954 to... Read full biography
Born in London, England, Malcolm Morley became a photo-realist* painter of subjects that he did in a mocking tone to rail against the seriousness with which people took them. He experimented with many mediums and styles including expressionist abstraction and figurative. He is known as a colorful character with many stories circulating about him including brief jail sentences for carousing and rages that led to mass destruction in his studio. He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1954 to 1956 and moved to New York City in 1958. During the 1970s, he pursued a variety of styles and mediums, and in the 1980s settled on the photo-real style, taking subject matter from such diverse sources as the Great Masters and postcards. In 1984, he... Read full biography
Born in London, England, Malcolm Morley became a photo-realist* painter of subjects that he did in a mocking tone to rail against the seriousness with which people took them. He experimented with many mediums and styles including expressionist abstraction and figurative. He is known as a colorful character with many stories circulating about him including brief jail sentences for carousing and rages that led to mass destruction in his studio. He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1954 to 1956 and moved to New York City in 1958. During the 1970s, he pursued a variety of styles and mediums, and in the 1980s settled on the photo-real style, taking subject matter from such diverse sources as the Great Masters and postcards. In 1984, he earned the Turner Prize* for Art from the Tate Gallery. His home and studio have been on Long Island.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (63)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Birth of the Cool From Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Curiger, Brice
144 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
True Colors The Real Life of the Art World
1996
Haden-Guest, Anthony
344 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
The Art of the Horse
1995
Fairley, John
192 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Art & Money (University of Chicago)
1995
Shell, Marc
230 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts
1991
Murken, Axel/Christa Murken
358 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists
1990
Hughes, Robert
429 pages
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Pisano, Ronald G
168 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
The New Image Painting in the 1980s
1986
Godfrey, Tony
159 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
50 New York Artists
1986
Marshall, Richard
118 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 pages (color)
American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition)
1986
Rose, Barbara
170 pages (color)
The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984
1985
Kramer, Hilton
445 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
New Art
1984
Freeman, Phyllis
207 pages (color)
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
New Figuration in America John Porter Retzer Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Milwaukee Art Museum
122 pages (color)
The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Danoff, Michael/C K Carr
102 pages (color)
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 pages (color)
Superrealist Painting and Sculpture
1980
Lindey, Christine
160 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
Artists Look at Art (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Hennessey, William J
60 pages
Art About Art
1978
Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall
176 pages (color)
Art Since Pop
1978
Walker, John
110 pages (color)
SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Block, Rene
431 pages
Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values
1976
Johnson, Ellen H
240 pages
New Realism
1976
Kulturmann, Udo
190 pages (color)
Topics in American Art Since 1945
1975
Alloway, Lawrence
283 pages
Super Realism: A Critical Anthology
1975
Battcock, Gregory (editor)
322 pages (color)
Things Seen
1974
Geske, Norman
115 pages (color)
Les Hyperrrealists Americains
1973
Chase, Linda
76 pages (color)
American Art Third Quarter Century (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Van Der Marck, Jan
138 pages (color)
Icons and Images of the Sixties
1971
Calas, Nicolas and Elena
347 pages
22 Realists (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Monte, James K
54 pages
Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism Milwaukee Art Center (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Atkinson, Tracy (Introduction); John Lloyd Taylor (Essay)