01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #18 B

JACK LORIMER GRAY

FISHING DRAGGER, c. 1961

Oil on canvas

24 ins x 36 ins; 59.9 cms x 89.9 cms 

Private Collection

A fishing trawler/Dragger is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively dragging or pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers. Trawls are fishing nets that are pulled along the bottom of the sea or in midwater at a specified depth. A trawler may also operate two or more trawl nets simultaneously. More on fishing trawler/Dragger

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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