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Ray Stanford Strong

Ray Stanford Strong (1905 - 2006) was active/lived in California, Oregon.  Ray Strong is known for Plein air western landscape painting, dioramas, teaching.

"Ray Strong: Remembering a Master" by Mark Humpal,  Southwest Art magazine, January 12, 2018:

In a career spanning the last three-quarters of the 20th century, painter Ray Strong (1905-2006) strove to capture the essence of the western landscape. California’s voluptuous, sunbaked foothills, dotted with clusters of live oaks, are his best-known subjects, but his oeuvre also includes depictions of Oregon, New York, Arizona, Utah, Canada, and Europe. Fresh from training in New York, he arrived in San Francisco during the early years of the Great Depression and soon became a major player in that city’s vibrant art community. A variety of accomplishments during the New Deal art programs of the 1930s brought him national fame and opened doors of opportunity. He hit his stride a decade later in Marin County, where he refined his signature style.

But the important first steps in Strong’s odyssey as a landscape painter were taken years earlier in his home state. Growin   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12370 characters.]  Artist bio

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