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Museums page for Gerald Laing ((1936 - 2011)), known for Pop art, painting, portrait sculpture, printmaking. Showing 3 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1936 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England - 2011. Known for: Pop art, painting, portrait sculpture, printmaking.
Gerald Laing obituary, The Guardian newspaper, London, November 25, 2011. One of Britain's best-known pop artists of the 1960s. When Gerald Laing passed out from the Royal Military Academy,... Read full biography
Gerald Laing obituary, The Guardian newspaper, London, November 25, 2011. One of Britain's best-known pop artists of the 1960s. When Gerald Laing passed out from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1955 and joined up with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, his destiny as one of Britain's... Read full biography
Gerald Laing obituary, The Guardian newspaper, London, November 25, 2011. One of Britain's best-known pop artists of the 1960s. When Gerald Laing passed out from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1955 and joined up with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, his destiny as one of Britain's best-known pop artists seemed remote. However, the fame - achieved within just 10 years - was tarnished by the time when, late in life, he returned to pop as he sensed the potential power of the... Read full biography
Gerald Laing obituary, The Guardian newspaper, London, November 25, 2011. One of Britain's best-known pop artists of the 1960s. When Gerald Laing passed out from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1955 and joined up with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, his destiny as one of Britain's best-known pop artists seemed remote. However, the fame - achieved within just 10 years - was tarnished by the time when, late in life, he returned to pop as he sensed the potential power of the ill-fated Amy Winehouse as an image. Life in Britain in the early 1950s had seemed tedious to Laing, who has died of cancer aged 75, so joining the regiment in which his father had also been an officer seemed the natural thing to do. But things were stirring... Read full biography
Gerald Laing obituary, The Guardian newspaper, London, November 25, 2011. One of Britain's best-known pop artists of the 1960s. When Gerald Laing passed out from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1955 and joined up with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, his destiny as one of Britain's best-known pop artists seemed remote. However, the fame - achieved within just 10 years - was tarnished by the time when, late in life, he returned to pop as he sensed the potential power of the ill-fated Amy Winehouse as an image. Life in Britain in the early 1950s had seemed tedious to Laing, who has died of cancer aged 75, so joining the regiment in which his father had also been an officer seemed the natural thing to do. But things were stirring in postwar austerity Britain, and in 1957 he saw a performance of Look Back in Anger that transformed his life. For... Read full biography
Gerald Laing - Artist Info
About Gerald Laing: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (3)
All MuseumsGodwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY
450 Klapper Hall,
6530 Kissena Blvd
Flushing, NY 11367Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400