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Percy Gray (California, 1869-1952) watercolor on heavy wove paper mountain landscape, likely a California scene, with several trees in a field before a wooded mountain range that extends toward distant peaks. Signed lower left. Unframed. Sheet: 7 1/4" H x 4 7/16" W. Biographical note: "With William Keith, Francis McComas, Lorenzo Latimer, and Sydney Yard, Percy Gray was among the best known of California's Tonalists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gray was especially adept in watercolor. He began his career as a newspaper illustrator in San Francisco, then spent eleven years working in New York for William Randolph Hearst's Journal. While in the East, Gray studied with William Merritt Chase and William Appleton Clark at the Art Students League before the Great Earthquake of 1906 drew him back to his native state, where he lived the remainder of his life. Immediately on his return to San Francisco, Gray began painting and exhibiting watercolors in an aesthetic environment that had grown even more receptive to landscape painting." (Source: the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
PROVENANCE: Private Knoxville, TN collection.
CONDITION: Excellent condition, with fresh colors.
