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merican artist Cleve Gray has produced a unique body of work over the past half century. The extent and character of his production are revealed in Nicholas Fox Weber's lucid study of the artist's life and accomplishments.
Gray's interest in art began in early childhood and was stimulated greatly at Princeton University, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1940. In Europe during World War II, as a GI, he met the French painters Jacques Villon and Andre Lhote and studied with both men.
Absorbing stimulation from Cubism and the School of Paris, Gray nevertheless pursued his own course toward a personal abstraction. In a catalogue essay for a 1977 show, the curator and museum director Robert Buck wrote that Gray's work showed "a kind of breakthrough in which an expressionist painter, originally inspired by Cubism, com- bines the legacy of American painting in the 1950s with a remarkable sense of color and space bearing no relationship to the other work of the much touted so-called color painters."
Gray's interest in art began in early childhood and was stimulated greatly at Princeton University, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1940. In Europe during World War II, as a GI, he met the French painters Jacques Villon and Andre Lhote and studied with both men.
Absorbing stimulation from Cubism and the School of Paris, Gray nevertheless pursued his own course toward a personal abstraction. In a catalogue essay for a 1977 show, the curator and museum director Robert Buck wrote that Gray's work showed "a kind of breakthrough in which an expressionist painter, originally inspired by Cubism, com- bines the legacy of American painting in the 1950s with a remarkable sense of color and space bearing no relationship to the other work of the much touted so-called color painters."