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Dick Wray

Dick Wray (1933 - 2011) was active/lived in Texas / Germany.  Dick Wray is known for Whimsical sketches-mixed media geometric painting.

Obituary. Houston Chronicle, Thursday, January 24, 2013
By Douglas Britt, Arts Writer

Artist Dick Wray, a key figure in the formative years of Houston's contemporary art scene, died Sunday from complications due to liver disease.  He was 77.

Known for his abstract expressionist style of painting, Wray launched his career in 1959, entering a painting competition at what is now the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.  He took pride in exhibiting his work every year thereafter until his most recent solo show in May at Wade Wilson Art.

That was no small achievement for an artist who spent the overwhelming majority of his career in the city of his birth, which had only the barest of art scenes when he returned from a two-year stint in Europe in the late 1950s.  In 2006 he told historian Sarah C. Reynolds his exposure during his travels to such painters as Jean Dubuffet, Karel Appel and Pierre Alechinsky made him realize "how backwards   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 21718 characters.]  Artist bio

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