Even Malcolm Morley's most seemingly innocuous paintings are underpinned by a sense ... traffic to allow his classmates to board a school bus. Why this title? Why this image?

Malcolm Morley, who has died aged 86 ... School of Arts and then at the Royal College of Art. Five years later he met an American girl on a bus and followed her to New York.

Malcolm Morley could be the most underrated old-timer in the art world. He first came to attention about 40 years ago, but has never settled into a comfortable niche. He has connections to Pop Art ...