Malcolm Morley British-American, 1931-2018
Underneath the Lemon Tree, 1981
Oil on canvas
57 x 75 in. (144.8 x 190.5 cm)
Unsigned
Provenance
Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection, VAGeoffrey Diner Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Exhibitions
“Figuration,” University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, 6 Jan 1980–7 Feb 1980"Malcolm Morley and Susan Rothenberg, Dialog Exhibition,” Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, 21 Nov, 1981–8 Jan, 1982
“Malcolm Morley: New Paintings and Watercolors,” Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York, 3 April – 9 May 1982
“Malcolm Morley: Paintings, 1965-82,” Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, 22 January – 27 February, 1983; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 17 April – 29 May, 1983; The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, 22 June – 21 August, 1983 (organizer); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 9 September – 6 November, 1983; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 19 November 1983 – 22 January 1984; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 18 February – 15 April 1984 (catalogue)
Literature
Plagens, Peter. “Issues and Commentary: The Academy of the Bad.” Art in America, November 1981, 11-17.Hughes, Robert. “Haunting Collisions of Imagery.” Time, 5 March 1984, 70-71