Jack Lorimer Gray
1927 - 1971

Jack Lorimer Gray was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on
April 28, 1927. Gray traveled briefly to Montreal in 1948,
to take a life drawing course from Arthur Lismer at the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. His first major solo exhibition
was at the Hackmatack Inn in Chester, Nova Scotia in 1948,
leading to several commissions. In the mid 1950s Gray moved
to New York City, and initially painted in studios on
boats in Flushing Bay. Gray had many exhibitions in the 1970s
throughout the world. Most of Gray's fame came from his
oil-on-canvas pieces. Although he painted on pre-made
canvas-on-board for some of his early works, he did
hand-stretching of double-primed canvas for the majority
of his output. All his oil works had an inscription on the
back about the location of the scene depicted, often in considerable detail.

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