Clifford Grayson

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Clifford Grayson (also Clifford Prevost Grayson , born July 14, 1857 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † November 11, 1951 in Old Lyme , Connecticut ) was an American painter .

Life

Family, education and professional career

Clifford Grayson, son of Frederick William Grayson and Mary Mallet Prevost Grayson, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in his hometown of Philadelphia, where Christian Schussele and Thomas Eakins were among his teachers. He continued his artistic training as a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts .

After completing his training, he lived in several French coastal regions, including for a longer period in Brittany , around 1884 he settled in Concarneau . In 1890 he returned to Philadelphia, where he was responsible for the Art Program at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry . In addition, he was very active at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Most recently he lived and worked in the artists' colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Clifford Grayson, who married Philadelphia-born Anna Lewis Steel (1867–1945) on January 21, 1902, died in 1951 at the age of 94.

Artistic work

The figure and landscape painter Clifford Grayson is one of the representatives of a fundamentally realistic style that incorporates impressionistic elements. In his work he particularly depicts maritime scenes as well as fearful women and children waiting for their loved ones to return.

Grayson, who exhibited regularly, was awarded the $ 2,000 Prize of the American Art Galleries in New York in 1886 , and a year later the prestigious Temple Gold Medal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Part of his work is represented in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and those of the Art Institute of Chicago . Grayson was a member of the Century Association and the Salmagundi Art Club.

literature

  • Who was Who in America with world notables: Volume IV, 1961-1968. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 376.
  • Sadakichi Hartmann (Author), Harold Walter Lawton (Editor): The Valiant Knights of Daguerre: Selected Critical Essays on Photography and Profiles of Photographic Pioneers. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1978, p. 323.
  • Kirsten M. Jensen: The American Salon: The Art Gallery at the Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition, 1873-1890. Ph. D. City University of New York. City University of New York, New York, 2007, p. 419.

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personal data
SURNAME Grayson, Clifford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grayson, Clifford Prevost (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1951
Place of death Old Lyme , Connecticut