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Ray George Ellis

Ray George Ellis (1921 - 2013) was active/lived in South Carolina, Massachusetts.  Ray Ellis is known for Marine, figure and landscape painting.

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Raymond George Ellis, 92, of Edgartown, Massachusetts, a nationally recognized artist whose paintings are in the permanent collections at The White House and in museums around the country, died at Martha's Vineyard Hospital on October 4, 2013, of complications from a stroke.  Mr. Ellis and the late television journalist Walter Cronkite collaborated in the 1980s on a series of three books depicting America's coastlines in word and image: South by Southeast, North by Northeast, and Westwind.  There are fifteen other books exclusively devoted to Ellis's paintings.  His biography will be published in the spring of 2014. For three consecutive years beginning in 1998, Mr. Ellis was commissioned by President and Mrs. Clinton to paint scenes of the White House to be reproduced as their official holiday greeting card. In 2004, the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, created a major traveling exhibition of his paintings.  He was awarded the Salmagundi Cl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13631 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Ray George Ellis


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Street Scenes, Street Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Hudson River Valley, New York
  • Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • Artists of America
  • Hudson Valley Art Association
  • National Arts Club, New York
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City
Art School
  • Philadelphia Museum School/College of Art, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Emily Lowe Memorial Award, National Academy of Design
  • Grumbacher Award
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • U.S. Embassy, Art in Embassies Program, Foundation
Added Description
  • Commercial Art and Design
  • Marine Specialty
  • Miniature Specialty
  • Newspaper Staff, Artist, Cartoon, Illustration, Photography, Graphics
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • Artists of America, Denver Rotary Club
  • Audubon Society of Artists
  • Hudson Valley Art Association-
  • National Arts Club
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City-

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