An American Girl by Gerald Laing at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
In this episode, we’ll be visiting An American Girl by Gerald Laing at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. Welcome to Art, Culture & Books with me, Anthony King. You’ll find the incredible An American Girl bronze by Gerald Laing at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland. It was conceived in in 1977 and cast in 1978. He used his wife as his model and you can see the mix of naturalism with abstraction. This is one of an edition of ten (plus two artist proofs). He himself described the bronze: “The headscarf is intended to be reminiscent of a US World War II helmet; it has always seemed to me that the large cranial size of these helmets gave US soldiers of the period