Jack Lorimer Gray, American/Canadian, 1927-1981
Nova Scotian Schooner, c. 1961
Oil on canvasboard
24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Private collection
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. The most common type has two masts, the foremast being shorter than the main. While the schooner was originally gaff-rigged, modern schooners typically carry a Bermuda rig. More on schooners
Jack Lorimer Gray (April 28, 1927 — September, 1981) was a Canadian artist, known particularly for
marine art.
Jack
Lorimer Gray was born in Halifax and studied at the Nova Scotia School of Art
and Design (NSCAD). Though a traditional painter of marine pictures in a decade
known for advances in abstraction in Canada, Gray's paintings are avidly sought
internationally. The appeal of his paintings has much to do with their
authenticity and dynamism. Gray spent time at sea and was well-positioned to
interpret in paint how vessels responded to the movement induced by wind and
wave, unlike other marine painters who limited themselves to moored ships which
they studied from dry land.
Gray lived in New York in the mid-50s and was represented
by Kennedy Galleries which accounts for the significant patronage he enjoyed in
the U.S. Gray moved to Maine in the late 1950s but was back in Halifax by
1961, More on Jack
Lorimer Gray
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