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Cleve Gray Prints and Multiples

American, 1918-2004

Cleve Gray was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. He was born on September 22, 1918, in New York. His works are displayed in various museums including, The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institute, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Phillips Collection. Gray died on December 8, 2004, in Hartford.

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Artist: Cleve Gray
Cleve Gray Abstract Expressionist color band - rare silkscreen signed & numbered
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
Cleve Gray Untitled, 1970 Silkscreen Boldly signed and numbered 32/100 in graphite pencil by Cleve Gray on the front 30 × 22 1/2 inches Signed and numbered 32/100 by artist on the fr...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Cleve Gray Prints and Multiples

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Lyrical Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Cleve Gray Lithograph Silkscreen Print
By Cleve Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
Cleve Gray, American (1918-2004) Composition, (1976) serigraph or lithograph Hand signed lower right, and editioned 36/60 Dimensions: 19.25 X 23.75 inches sheet. unframed Cleve Gray (1918 – 2004) was an American Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg, the family changed their name to Gray in 1936. Gray attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City (1924–1932). From the age of 11 until the age of 14 he had his first formal art training with Antonia Nell, who had been a student of George Bellows. From 15 to 18 he attended the Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts; where he studied painting with Bartlett Hayes and won the Samuel F. B. Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940 he graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude, with a degree in Art and Archeology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Princeton he studied painting with James C. Davis and Far Eastern Art with George Rowley, under whose supervision he wrote his thesis on Yuan dynasty landscape painting. Best known for his calligraphic abstractions which melded elements of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, and traditional Chinese scroll painting. After graduation in 1941 Gray moved to Tucson, Arizona. In Arizona he exhibited his modernist landscape paintings and still lifes at the Alfred Messer Studio Gallery in Tucson. In 1942 he returned to New York and joined the United States Army. During World War II, he served in the signal intelligence service in Britain, France and Germany, where he rose to the rank of sergeant. After the liberation of Paris he was the first American GI to greet Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. He began informal art training with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, continuing his art studies in Paris after the war. Gray returned to the United States in 1946. In 1949 he moved to the house his parents had owned on a 94-acre property in Warren, Connecticut, and lived there for the rest of his life. In the 1960s he formed a close friendship with Barnett Newman. It was during this time that he experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Asian, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. He married the noted author Francine du Plessix on April 23, 1957. They worked in separate studios in two outbuildings with a driveway in between. Gray was a veteran of scores of exhibitions throughout his career, as listed below, from the early days Tucson, through to postwar Paris and New York, and most recently in 2002 at the Berry-Hill Gallery in New York City. His paintings are held in the collections of numerous prominent museums and institutions. In 2009 the art critic Karen Wilkin curated a posthumous retrospective of his work at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, and other posthumous exhibitions have been held. Museum collections Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida The Brooklyn Museum, New York City Columbia University Art Gallery, New York City Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York City Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii The Jewish Museum, New York City The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Modern Art, New York City The Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut The Newark Museum, New Jersey Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Oklahoma City Art Center, Oklahoma The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.[14] The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey[6] Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut He was included in the show 1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Cleve Gray Prints and Multiples

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Untitled
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this large, scarce print, color aquatint on white wove Fabriano paper. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 35. Signed and inscribed "artist's proof" ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleve Gray Prints and Multiples

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Color, Aquatint

Night St. Maxime
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on Rives BFK. Signed and numbered 68/100 in pencil by Gray. Dimensions with the frame are 31 x 23 inches.
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleve Gray Prints and Multiples

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Lyrical Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Cleve Gray Lithograph Silkscreen Print
By Cleve Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
Cleve Gray, American (1918-2004) Composition, (1976) serigraph or lithograph Hand signed lower right, and editioned 9/50 Dimensions: 19.25 X 23.75 inches sheet. unframed Cleve Gray (1918 – 2004) was an American Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg, the family changed their name to Gray in 1936. Gray attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City (1924–1932). From the age of 11 until the age of 14 he had his first formal art training with Antonia Nell, who had been a student of George Bellows. From 15 to 18 he attended the Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts; where he studied painting with Bartlett Hayes and won the Samuel F. B. Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940 he graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude, with a degree in Art and Archeology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Princeton he studied painting with James C. Davis and Far Eastern Art with George Rowley, under whose supervision he wrote his thesis on Yuan dynasty landscape painting. Best known for his calligraphic abstractions which melded elements of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, and traditional Chinese scroll painting. After graduation in 1941 Gray moved to Tucson, Arizona. In Arizona he exhibited his modernist landscape paintings and still lifes at the Alfred Messer Studio Gallery in Tucson. In 1942 he returned to New York and joined the United States Army. During World War II, he served in the signal intelligence service in Britain, France and Germany, where he rose to the rank of sergeant. After the liberation of Paris he was the first American GI to greet Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. He began informal art training with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, continuing his art studies in Paris after the war. Gray returned to the United States in 1946. In 1949 he moved to the house his parents had owned on a 94-acre property in Warren, Connecticut, and lived there for the rest of his life. In the 1960s he formed a close friendship with Barnett Newman. It was during this time that he experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. He married the noted author Francine du Plessix on April 23, 1957. They worked in separate studios in two outbuildings with a driveway in between. Gray was a veteran of scores of exhibitions throughout his career, as listed below, from the early days Tucson, through to postwar Paris and New York, and most recently in 2002 at the Berry-Hill Gallery in New York City. His paintings are held in the collections of numerous prominent museums and institutions. In 2009 the art critic Karen Wilkin curated a posthumous retrospective of his work at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, and other posthumous exhibitions have been held. Museum collections Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida The Brooklyn Museum, New York City Columbia University Art Gallery, New York City Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York City Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii The Jewish Museum, New York City The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Modern Art, New York City The Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut The Newark Museum, New Jersey Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Oklahoma City Art Center, Oklahoma The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.[14] The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey[6] Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut He was included in the show 1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Cleve Gray Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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