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Percy (Henry Percy) Gray

Percy (Henry Percy) Gray (1869 - 1952) was active/lived in California, New York.  Percy Gray is known for Landscape, coastal view, and portrait painting.

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Percy Gray was a talented American painter whose career spanned over forty years from 1906 to 1952.  During these years of modernist turmoil in American art, Gray adhered to a single artistic goal -- to extract poetic reverberations from California's natural beauty.

Percy Gray was born in San Francisco in 1869 to a family with a rich artistic and literary heritage.  Gray's father emigrated from England to Australia, married and moved to San Francisco, where he thrived in the insurance business.  Percy grew up in the young city, which harbored ambitions to become a major cultural center. During a childhood illness, he discovered a talent for art.  He attended the California School of Design from 1886 - 1888 and began a career as a newspaper illustrator, ending up with a job at the "New York Journal" in 1895.

Gray spent the next eleven years as a newspaper artist in New York City but also found time to study at the Art Students League and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15457 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Percy (Henry Percy) Gray

   Publications  Book References:  35
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Percy (Henry Percy) Gray
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review California Landscapes from the Willrich Collection December 2006 Burgard, Timothy Anglin Yes
Art & Antiques Fine Shopping Squared October 2000 Robinson, Rebecca Yes
Southwest Art Best of the West August 1998 Busler, Leslie Yes
American Art Review Percy Gray (1869-1952) August 1998 Harrison, Alfred C Yes
American Art Review A Painter's Paradise (California) December 1996 Gerdts, William H Yes
35 Book References for Percy (Henry Percy) Gray
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12) 547 No
2006 Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Alfred C. Harrison, Jr. California Impressions: Landscapes from the Wendy Willrich Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Editor, St. Mary's College Water, Land and Sky: Rediscovering Albert Thomas DeRome
(Exhibition catalog)
15 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2002 McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary 231 Yes
2002 William Stone, Essay Celebrating 75 Years of Local Art Carmel Art Association 1927-2002
(Exhibition catalog)
12 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1992 Stern, Jean; Janet Blake Doninik and Harvey L. Jones Selections from the Irvine Museum 128 Yes
1991 Chelette, Iona and Katherine Hough California Grandeur and Genre (Collections of James Coran and Walter Nelson-Rees) 107 Yes
1991 Westphal, Ruth; Janet B Dominik American Scene Painting, California 1930s and 1940s 240 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Vincent, Stephen et al O California ! 19th & Early 20th Cen Landscapes 272 Yes
1989 Coran, James/W A Nelson-Rees If Pictures Could Talk Stories About California Paintings 382 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Stern, Jean; Morton Fleischer and Janet Dominik Masterworks of California Impressionism Morton H. Fleischer Collection 178 Yes
1986 Westphal, Ruth Lilly Plein Air Painters of California: The North 220 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 McClelland, Gordon T; Jay Last The California Style Watercolor Artists 1925-1955 259 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Seavey, Kent (Essay); Thomas J. Logan, Foreward Monterey: The Artist's View, 1925-1945 Monterey Peninsula Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
40 No
1981 Baird, Joseph Armstrong Jr From Exposition to Exposition Northern California Painting 1915-1939
(Exhibition catalog)
88 No
1976 Spangenberg, Helen Yesterday's Artists on the Monterey Peninsula 88 Yes
1970 Whitton and Johnson Percy Gray 1869-1952 94 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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