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Cleve Gray
American Abstract expressionist painter
Cleve Gray (September 22, 1918 – December 8, 2004) was an American Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Early life and education
Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg: the family changed their name to Gray in 1936.[1] Gray attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City (1924–1932).
From the age of 11 until the age of 14 he had his first formal art training with Antonia Nell, who had been a student of George Bellows. From 15 to 18 he attended the Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts; where he studied painting with Bartlett Hayes and won the Samuel F.
B. Morse Prize for most promising art student.
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In 1940 he graduated from Princeton Universitysumma cum laude, with a degree in Art and Archeology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Princeton he studied painting with James C. Davis and Far Eastern Art with George Rowley, under whose superv