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Camilla Gray was born in Hampstead, London, in 1936, [1] [2] the daughter of Basil Gray, keeper of Oriental art at the British Museum, and the scholar of art and lettering Nicolete Gray. She had two sisters Cecilia and Sophy and two brothers Edmund and Marius. The family lived at the museum. [3] She was the granddaughter of the poet Laurence ...
In February 2009, Gray's "Dragons" armchair made by her between 1917 and 1919 (acquired by her early patron Suzanne Talbot and later part of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection) was sold at auction in Paris for €21.9 million (US$28.3 million), setting an auction record for 20th-century decorative art.
Katherine Gray (born 1965) is a Canadian glass artist and professor of art at California State University, San Bernardino. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her work includes vases , candelabras , and goblets , and some of her pieces are designed to fit inside each other.
Their first public work of art was a series of temporary installations, Railings (1996), first created in Paris and widely copied. In each case greyworld took a set of ordinary street railings and tuned them so that when you run a stick or an umbrella along them, rather than making the 'clack-clack-clack' sound as expected, they played The Girl from Ipanema.
For the first time, Mackintosh was given responsibility for not only the interior design and furniture, but also for the full detail of the internal layout and exterior architectural treatment. The resultant building came to be known as the Willow Tearooms, and is the best known and most important work that Mackintosh undertook for Miss Cranston.
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 ] The Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art at NYU comprises some 700 works produced by artists from countries as diverse as Japan , Thailand ...
The second New York Times review, printed five days later on January 22, 1928, within “To Be Seen, Work of Variety and Interest in the Galleries” [9] reviewed her work with: “Marion Gray Traver, now exhibiting oils and monotypes at the Art Centre, is evidently an artist who prefers painting immediate outdoor impressions to the studio ...
More conservative Western art museums have classified Indigenous art of the Americas within arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with precontact artwork classified as pre-Columbian art, a term that sometimes refers to only precontact art by Indigenous peoples of Latin America. Native scholars and allies are striving to have Indigenous art ...