Percy Gray

Visual Artist

1869 – 1952

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Who was Percy Gray?

Henry Percy Gray was an American painter. 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. While he had some early Impressionistic tendencies, his primary expression was under the Tonalism Mathews had brought back from Paris. He is known for his extraction of beauty from the Northern California landscape.

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Born
Oct 3, 1869
San Francisco
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • San Francisco Art Institute
Lived in
  • San Francisco
Died
Oct 10, 1952

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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