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Cleve Gray

American

1918-2004

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  1. Cleve Gray

    Resurrection Series, 1986

    Acrylic on paper mounted to burlap and board

    29.75 x 22 in (75.57 x 55.88 cm)

  2. Cleve Gray

    Cypress Trees: Granada, 1958

    Oil on linen

    40 x 20 in (101.6 x 50.8 cm)

  3. Cleve Gray

    Memory of Prague, 1987

    Acrylic on canvas mounted to burlap

    47.5 x 59 in (120.65 x 149.86 cm)

  4. Ceres #18 by Cleve Gray, Image 2.

    Cleve Gray

    Ceres #18, 1967

    Acrylic and silver enamel on duck cloth canvas

    82 x 80 in (208.28 x 203.2 cm)

American painter. He studied at the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA and later focused on art history at Princeton University. He is known for his abstract work that focuses on levels of color and gestural brushstrokes. Often described as calligraphic abstractions, his painting melded elements of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, and traditional Chinese scroll painting. Often contrasting flat applications of colors with gestural brushstrokes, Gray’s marks appears to float above the picture plane. Gray gradually thinned his oil paints and eventually switched to acrylic to create washes of pigment. His work is featured in the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, and other museums.