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4 unusual facts about Percy Gray


Percy Gray

He was clearly applying the precepts of his mentor William Merritt Chase in exaggeration of light and color.

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From 1912 to 1923 Gray lived in Burlingame, California about twenty miles south of San Francisco, while keeping his studio in the city itself.

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He studied under Arthur Frank Mathews at the San Francisco School of Design and later under William Merritt Chase.

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He and his bride moved to the Sherman Quarters on the grounds of the Larkin Adobe in Monterey, where seascapes and cypress dominated his later works.



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