YM60
Artist
Malcolm Morley
(American, born England, 1931 - 2018)
Date2014
MediumOil on linen with paper and metal attachments
DimensionsOverall: 40 × 50 × 9 inches (101.6 × 127 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the William T. Kemper Foundation–Commerce Bank, Trustee
Object number2015.23.1,2
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionThis painting depicts a ship entitled YM60, whose prow has broken away from the vessel. Overhead, planes are locked in battle. A red and white lighthouse sits atop a distant mountain.Exhibition HistoryMalcolm Morley, Sperone Westwater, New York, April 16-June 6, 2015, unnumbered.
YM60 depicts a Dutch ship of the same name. Overhead, fighter planes are locked in battle. The ship’s prow breaks away, life boats are ready, but no one is on board. The painting recalls an early wartime trauma during the Blitz of London when Morley’s childhood home was struck by a self-propelled bomb, destroying his prized toy model ship. YM60 is one of Morley’s many paintings of battle scenes. The work also relates to the artist’s lifelong fascination with historic battles, especially those in which the British heroically overcame great odds.
With
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, by 2015;
Purchased from Sperone Westwater Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
Purchased from Sperone Westwater Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
Malcolm Morley (New York: Sperone Westatwer, 2015), 42-43,
(repro.).
Copyright© Malcolm Morley
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