Collection of Arthur B. Kouwenhoven, Jr. Don Gray (NY/CA, b. 1935), Still Life, Oil on Canvas, signed on the top stretcher, depicting an interior scene with table and a bowl of fruit, in a giltwood Julius Lowy frame. Frame size 16 5/8 in. height x 19 5/8 in. width. Born in California, but raised in Arizona (and now living there), Gray's extensive arts background is centered in New York City, where he lived for twenty-five years. A poet and art critic as well as a painter, Gray wrote for the New York Arts Journal, Times Herald-Record newspaper, Applause and Sunstorm magazines, and as Senior Editor of Art World. (Source: Askart.com) Gray was represented by Waverly Gallery Inc. 103 Waverly Place New York, he showed at Jack Tanyen Gallery, 860 Madison Ave, and had a solo exhibitions at Vera Lazuk Gallery, Long Island in 1965, at Galerie Achard de Souza, 783 Madison Avenue, New York in January 1966, and the group show "20th Century American" at Alfredo Valente Gallery, 822 Madison Ave., New York with George Bellows, Philip Evergood, Georg Grosz, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, George Luks, Ben Shannand Raphael Soyer. Provenance Purchased directly from the artist.