Nicolete Gray

Who was Nicolete Gray?

Nicolete Gray was an English art scholar, and exponent and scholar of calligraphy. She was the youngest daughter of the poet, dramatist and art scholar Laurence Binyon and his wife, writer, editor and translator Cicely Margaret Pryor Powell. In 1933 she married Basil Gray, with whom she had five children, two sons and three daughters.

She attended St Paul's School where she won a scholarship to Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford to read History in 1929.

In 1936 she curated the touring exhibition Abstract and Concrete, the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in England.

Her books include Nineteenth century ornamented typefaces and A History of Lettering.

She died in London 8 June 1997.