Artworks

War Paintings 2002 - present

It grieves me to see that the daughters and grand daughters of some of my Starlets have joined the US Army and served at Abu Ghraib, that the descendants of my Navy Pilot bomb defenceless cities from 35,000 feet, that the myth of the American Dream is being imposed by force as a new imperialism, and that the great adventure in space is reduced to numerous, mostly warlike, surveillance satellites.

I have painted them again, in their new roles.

I exhibit these paintings as widely as possible. They are greeted with enthusiasm at every venue, in New York particularly, because they voice (if that is the appropriate word) the thoughts of those who have no means of making themselves heard.

Gerald Laing, 2006

Digital prints of the War Paintings are available from the ocontemporary gallery.


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The Silent Sullen People Shall Weigh Your Gods and You

CR 606b

2004 · Scotland

60 x 48 · Oil on canvas

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Only One of them Uses Colgate

CR 607

2004 · Kinkell, Scotland

32 x 36 · Oil on canvas

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American Gothic

CR 608

2004 · Scotland

32 x 36 · Oil on canvas

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L’Aprés Midi D’un Faune

CR 609

2004 · Kinkell, Scotland

32 x 36 · Oil on canvas

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Caryatid

CR 610

2004 · Scotland

36 x 32 · Oil on canvas

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Awe Shucks

CR 611

2004 · Kinkell, Scotland

48 x 80 · Oil on canvas

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The New American Tourist

CR 612

2005 · Kinkell, Scotland

36 x 32 · Oil on canvas

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US on Top

CR 613

2004 · Scotland

32" x 36" · Oil paint on canvas

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Study For “Look, Mickey”

CR 614

2005

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Look Mickey

CR 615

2005 · Scotland

72 x 64 · Oil on canvas

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Study For “Homage to Joseph Albers”

CR 615

2005 · Kinkell, Scotland

32 x 36 · Oil on Canvas

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Capriccio

CR 616

2005 · Scotland

72 x 64 · Oil paint on canvas

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