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Malcolm Morley (1931) 
Professions: Painter
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Malcolm Morley (b. 1931)
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malcolm morley b.1931
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f,m - Malcolm Morley , b. 1931 Cristoforo Colombo oil on canvas
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Malcolm Morley (b. 1931)
Biography: Morley
(b London, 1931). English painter active in the USA. After attending the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London from 1952 to 1953, he studied at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1954 to 1957. Deeply impressed by the Abstract Expressionist paintings in an exhibition of American art (London, Tate, 1956), he made a brief visit to the USA in 1957 and settled permanently in New York in 1958. While earning his living as a waiter he developed an abstract idiom influenced by Barnett Newman, limiting himself primarily to horizontal bands in black and white, as in Battle of Hastings (1964; see 1983–4 exh. cat., p. 75).
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