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As a university art museum, the Grey Art Gallery functions to collect, preserve, study, document, interpret, and exhibit the evidence of human culture. [2] NYU's art collection was named the Grey Art Gallery in 1973 following a major gift of one thousand works from Abby Weed Grey. [3] The museum opened to the public in 1975. [4]
Grey was born Alexander Velzy on November 29, 1953, in Columbus, Ohio. [3] His father was a graphic designer and artist. [3] Grey was the middle child. [4] He attended the Columbus College of Art and Design for two years before dropping out. [5]
Grey was a native of Saint Paul, Minnesota.She established the Ben and Abby Grey Foundation to sponsor artists after her husband died in 1956. [2] Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Grey undertook curatorial projects such as Fourteen Contemporary Iranians (1962–65), curated by Parviz Tanavoli and Turkish Art Today (1966–70), each of which toured the United States; Communication Through Art ...
George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938), often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris.He is especially noted for his heroic sized Struggle of the Two Natures in Man at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his twin sculpture groups at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, and his Lincoln statue in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Struggle of the Two Natures in Man is an 1888 marble sculpture by American artist George Grey Barnard. It was carved during 1892–1894 and measures 101 inches (260 cm) x 102 inches (260 cm) x 48 inches (120 cm). The sculpture is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. [1]
Gray's School of Art was founded in 1885 as Gray's School of Science and Art and named after John Gray (1811–1891), a local businessman and an early investor in the school. In 1859 he was appointed director of the Aberdeen Mechanics Institution, one of the city institutions which would develop into The Robert Gordon University .
Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg: the family changed their name to Gray in 1936. [1] 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.
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey is an oil painting by Paul Delaroche, completed in 1833, which is now in the National Gallery in London. It was enormously popular in the decades after it was painted, but in the 20th century realist historical paintings fell from critical favour and it was kept in storage for many decades, for much of which it was thought lost.