CLEVE GRAY (1918-2004)
Cleve Gray was admired for his large-scale,
vividly colorful and lyrically gestural abstract compositions and achieved
his greatest critical recognition in the late 1960's and 70's after working for many years in a comparatively
conservative late-Cubist style. Inspired in the 1960's by artists like Jackson Pollock,
Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, Gray began
to produce large paintings using a variety of application methods -
pouring, staining, sponging and other nontraditional techniques - to
create compositions combining expanses of pure color and spontaneous
calligraphic gestures.
In 1972 and 1973 Cleve Gray produced
"Threnody," a suite of 14 paintings, each measuring
20 feet by 20 feet, dedicated to the dead on both sides in
the Vietnam War. The series was commissioned by the Neuberger
Museum of Art at Purchase College, part of the State University
of New York, and is considered one of the largest groups of
abstract paintings created for a specific public space. Gray's
work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American
Art and many other museums.
REVIEWS | BIOGRAPHY | PRINTS
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CLEVE GRAY PAINTINGS |
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Sep of Continents #17
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Sep of Continents #21
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Zen Gardens #124
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Dancing
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Orange & Yellow Thrust
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My Cosmology #7
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Three
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Silver Diver
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Hansa
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Jonquil
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Hooker's Green
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Zen Gardens #113 |
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Hawaiino |
Ke-ao-mele-mele |
Summer Path |
Medusa Marrakesch |
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The Eagle Dying
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Pine Forest #2
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Peme #11
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Conjunction #201
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Triple
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Peme in a Gyre
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Rameses Series w/Green
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Phoenicia
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Peme B
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Untitled
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Falconer
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Rameses Series w/Blue |
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Laka #2 |
Hawaii #1 |
Hera 1 |
Ceres #16 |
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Resurrection Triptych #2 |
Cortez |
Vernal |
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CLEVE GRAY WORKS ON PAPER
These are among the last of Cleve Gray's work prior to his death in 2004.
All are on Aquarelle 300 lb paper, signed & dated.
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Interplay #1
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Interplay #6
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Interplay #11
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Interplay #125
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Interplay A
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Interplay B
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Interplay C
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Interplay D |
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Interplay E
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Interplay F
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Interplay G
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Interplay H |
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Interplay #148 |
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Interplay J |
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Interplay #313 |
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Transition #113 |
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Transition #112 |
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Transition #93 |
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Transition #84 |
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Transition #58 |
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Transition #79 |
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Transition #96 |
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Transition #55 |
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