Bill Laing (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. 22 pp., paperback, minor library markings, text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 48 pp b/w illus. Page edges tanned. Tidy stapled copy.

Imitation Leather. Condition: New.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 38 pages. Features: The Now Generation - B.C. Conservationists Get Things Done; Helicopter Over Canada; Giant Atlantic Salmon of Newfoundland's Humber River; The Suicidal Duck; Fighting Witefish - The most exciting fishing in years; Saving lost plugs; A Trip to Remember - Largemouth Bass near Parry Sound; Three Best Flies for Big Trout; Good Bass Fishing in B.C. Lakes; Fishing Bruce County's Saugeen River; Spring Methods for Walleyes; Fishfood; Sturgeon from Sturgeon Falls; All Canada N.S.S.A. Skeet Team for 1967; Early Honda generator ad on back cover shows young lady watching TV in her rowboat; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Four center pages loose but present (and will be restapled if you request). A worthy vintage copy.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Bill Laing (illustrator). 1st Edition. Bill Laing aquatint titled Night Lights printed on hand made wove paper. Titled, signed and titled on verso by the artist. Fine Sheet with image 25.5 x 28cm (10 x 11 inches) This was plate 62, as published in A Tribute to Birgit Skiold , 1983. Bill Laing [Canadian 1944 ] William [Bill] Laing was born in Scotland and immigrated to Canada in 1960. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art, Brighton Polytechnic in England and received his Master s Degree from the Royal College of Art in London, England in 1974. He returned to Canada to teach at the Alberta College of Art and Design and later at the University of Calgary in 1977. Bill taught at the University of Calgary for 39 years, retiring at the end of 2015. Laing has exhibited in over 500 group shows and 50 solo shows across Canada and around the world. His prints have been showcased nationally and internationally in several prestigious international print festivals and have won the artist numerous prizes and awards. His works are held in a number of collections in Canada and abroad including the British Museum, National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Art, Strasbourg, France, National Gallery of Australia, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, the Kyoto Museum of Art, Japan, Guangdong Museum of Art, Shanghai, China and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Ltd edition of 100. 25 loose card, full page, illustrations. Each signed by the 25 artists in pencil or ink etc. A little smudged but otherwise fine. All kept in a transparent plastic lidded box, which still has old cellotape marks to either edge. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.". Signed by Author(s).