Ralph Glasser, 1916 - 2002
About this artwork
Sitting for this portrait prompted the psychologist and economist, Ralph Glasser, to go through a process of deep self-examination. He had felt the same way when writing his autobiographical trilogy, 'Growing up in the Gorbals', 'Gorbals Boy at Oxford' and 'Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs'. Glasser's account of his childhood and adolescence describes the now vanished world of Jewish immigrants in the slums of Glasgow. He started working at fourteen but later won a scholarship to Oxford University, a place where '"someone from the Gorbals was in effect a bushman and the Gorbals itself as distant, as unknowable, as the Kalahari Desert".
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artist:Humphrey Ocean (born 1951) English
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title:Ralph Glasser, 1916 - 2002
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date created:1992
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materials:Pencil on paper
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measurements:71.40 x 54.90 cm (framed: 97.00 x 76.50 x 3.00 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1992
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accession number:PG 2902
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Humphrey Ocean
Humphrey Ocean
London-based Humphrey Ocean was born in Sussex in 1951 and studied at art schools in Tunbridge Wells, Brighton and Canterbury. From 1971 to 73 he was bass player with 'Kilburn and the High Roads'. In 1982 he won the Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award and went on to establish himself as a leading...