St. Lucia Canoe

Artist Malcolm Morley (British, 1931 - 2018)

Date1993

MediumWatercolor on paper

DimensionsImage: 21 9/16 × 29 11/16 inches (54.8 × 75.4 cm)
Sheet: 21 9/16 × 29 11/16 inches (54.8 × 75.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight H. Emanuelson.

Object number1995.3.2

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Copyright© The Estate of Malcolm Morley. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws. Label TextMalcolm Morley was born in Britain and studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art, both in London, before moving to New York in 1958. He has lived and worked in New York ever since. Morley first became known in the mid-1960s for his trompe l’oeil paintings of reproduced photographs of ships and images from travel brochures, which marked the beginning of photorealism in American art. This reproduction of existing images from contemporary culture links him with the Pop Art movement. As his work has evolved past photorealism and his style has become looser, Morley has been described as a neo-expressionist, although he eschews such rigid categorization. Morley’s work is held in the permanent collections of renowned museums throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Tate Gallery in London.

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