This is part two of a two-part post on the works of American painter Henry Percy Gray (1869-1952). For biographical notes and more works see part one.
Note: Sizes where shown are rounded up or down to the nearest whole centimetre:
Note: Sizes where shown are rounded up or down to the nearest whole centimetre:
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| Landscape with Oaks and Stream watercolour |
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| Lupines watercolour |
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| Monterey Dunes graphite on paper 28 x 36 cm |
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| Monterey Sand Dunes watercolour 36 x 48 cm |
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| Mount Shasta watercolour |
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| Mt Tamalpais from the North watercolour 38 x 51 cm |
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| Northern California Landscape with Oaks watercolour 25 x 36 cm |
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| Oak Tree watercolour 41 x 53 cm |
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| Oaks and Lupines watercolour |
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| Oaks in Landscape oil on board 31 x 41 cm |
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| Old Adobe watercolour 34 x 49 cm |
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| Pastoral Eucalyptus etching |
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| Pastoral Eucalyptus watercolour 18 x 23 cm |
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| Pines and Sand Dunes watercolour 31 x 44 cm |
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| Pinnacle Point, Cypress Cove, Point Lobos |
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| Poppies and Eucalyptus watercolour 41 x 51 cm |
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| Spring Landscape with Eucalyptus watercolour 38 x 56 cm |
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| Springtime in Corral de Tierra watercolour 26 x 36 cm |
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| The Gypsy Girl oil on canvas 54 x 36 cm |
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| The Old Farm |
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| When Monterey Was Young watercolour 41 x 51 cm |
Henry Percy Gray - part 2
Henry Percy Gray (1869-1952) was an American painter known for his pastoral depictions of the Northern California landscape. Gray was born into a San Francisco family endowed with a broad literary and artistic background. He studied under Arthur Frank Mathews at the San Francisco School of Design and later under William Merritt Chase (blog post on Chase to come at some point soon). While he had some early Impressionistic tendencies, his primary expression was under the Tonalism Mathews had brought back from Paris.
From there he went on to become a newspaper illustrator, obtaining a job with the New York Journal. In New York he also studied at the Art Students League. He was dispatched from New York to cover the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but decided to remain in his native city where he would then take up his painting career.
Gray's first pieces, headland seascapes, were exhibited in 1907; soon thereafter he addressed in watercolour eucalyptus groves and fields of California wildflowers. These subjects would become signatures of his work. Originally Gray's works were oils; however, he eventually developed an allergy to oil paints, and therefore switched to using watercolours as his primary medium.
From early on the critics marvelled at his ability to infuse realistic depictions of nature with a mystical and poetic quality. He was clearly applying the precepts of his mentor William Merritt Chase in the exaggeration of light and colour.
From 1912 to 1923 Gray lived in Burlingame, California about twenty miles south of San Francisco, while keeping his studio in the city itself. At the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition he won a bronze medal for his watercolour Out of the Desert, Oregon. Having been a bachelor for 53 years, Gray surprised his friends by marrying. He and his bride moved to the Bonificio Adobe in Monterey, where seascapes and cypress dominated his later works. In 1939 the Grays sold their adobe and moved to San Francisco. Restless for the out of doors, Gray and his wife moved to San Anselmo at the base of Mount Tamalpais in 1941. After ten years in Marin County, his wife died and he returned to San Francisco. Gray died in 1952.
I�m afraid I don�t have the dates for many of Gray�s works.
From there he went on to become a newspaper illustrator, obtaining a job with the New York Journal. In New York he also studied at the Art Students League. He was dispatched from New York to cover the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but decided to remain in his native city where he would then take up his painting career.
Gray's first pieces, headland seascapes, were exhibited in 1907; soon thereafter he addressed in watercolour eucalyptus groves and fields of California wildflowers. These subjects would become signatures of his work. Originally Gray's works were oils; however, he eventually developed an allergy to oil paints, and therefore switched to using watercolours as his primary medium.
From early on the critics marvelled at his ability to infuse realistic depictions of nature with a mystical and poetic quality. He was clearly applying the precepts of his mentor William Merritt Chase in the exaggeration of light and colour.
From 1912 to 1923 Gray lived in Burlingame, California about twenty miles south of San Francisco, while keeping his studio in the city itself. At the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition he won a bronze medal for his watercolour Out of the Desert, Oregon. Having been a bachelor for 53 years, Gray surprised his friends by marrying. He and his bride moved to the Bonificio Adobe in Monterey, where seascapes and cypress dominated his later works. In 1939 the Grays sold their adobe and moved to San Francisco. Restless for the out of doors, Gray and his wife moved to San Anselmo at the base of Mount Tamalpais in 1941. After ten years in Marin County, his wife died and he returned to San Francisco. Gray died in 1952.
I�m afraid I don�t have the dates for many of Gray�s works.
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| 1907 San Francisco Bay from the Alameda Hills watercolour 31 x 36 cm |
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| 1909 Tree on a Hillside watercolour 33 x 28 cm |
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| 1918 California Landscape oil on canvas 48 x 71 cm |
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| 1924 Cypress Trees Near Point Lobos watercolour 40 x 50 cm |
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| 1926 Rogue River Gorge watercolour 56 x 41 cm |
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| 1926 Two Oaks watercolour |
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| 1927 Path to the Blue Mountains watercolour |
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| 1930 Weathered Oak (detail) watercolour & gouache 25 x 36 cm |
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| c1934 Corral de Tierra watercolour 33 x 48 cm |
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| Aetna Springs, California watercolour 31 x 41 cm |
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| Aetna Springs, California watercolour 31 x 41 cm |
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| Aetna Springs, California watercolour 51 x 41 cm |
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| Aetna Springs, California watercolour 51 x 41 cm |
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| Autumn Dunes watercolour 31 x 41 cm |
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| California Ranch watercolour 36 x 46 cm |
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| Early Meadow Landscape watercolour 26 x 33 cm |
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| Entrance to the Golden Gate watercolour 41 x 51 cm |
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| Flower Field Carmel Valley watercolour 41 x 51 cm |
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| Guardian Oak etching 13 x 16 cm |
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| Into the Valley etching |
Henry Percy Gray - part 1
This is part two of a two-part post on the works of American abstract expressionist painter Norman Bluhm (1921 - 1999). For biographical notes and earlier works see part one.
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| 1971 Oenotria oil on canvas |
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| 1972 Iole oil on canvas |
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| 1973 Untitled watercolour, ink, acrylic |
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| 1974 Untitled acrylic and pastel on canvas |
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| 1974 Untitled acrylic and pastel on paper |
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| 1975 Untitled acrylic on paper |
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| 1977 Untitled acrylic and pastel on paper |
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| 1978 Sooty Lady oil on canvas |
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| 1984 Untitled acrylic and pastel on paper |
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| 1985 Laredo Lady oil on canvas |
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| 1986 Oriental Madonna oil on canvas |
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| 1987 Black & White acrylic on paper |
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| 1987 Mosaic #7 acrylic and pastel on paper |
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| 1988 Aegean Angel oil on canvas |
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| 1989 Byzantine Angel oil on canvas |
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| 1997 Untitled acrylic and ink on paper |
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| 1997 Untitled acrylic on paper |
Norman Bluhm - abstract expressionist - part 2
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