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Wray Manning BIOGRAPHY
1887 London, Ohio - 1978. Known for: Landscape, still life and figure painting.
Additional information from an exhibition catalog by Ten Thirty Gallery. Wray Manning's subject matter is varied - landscape, figure, still life, in both oil and watercolor. But whatever the subject,... Read full biography
Additional information from an exhibition catalog by Ten Thirty Gallery. Wray Manning's subject matter is varied - landscape, figure, still life, in both oil and watercolor. But whatever the subject, whatever the medium, his work is always imbued with a delicate and reticent fantasy. His colors are... Read full biography
Additional information from an exhibition catalog by Ten Thirty Gallery. Wray Manning's subject matter is varied - landscape, figure, still life, in both oil and watercolor. But whatever the subject, whatever the medium, his work is always imbued with a delicate and reticent fantasy. His colors are muted. He evokes nostalgic memories, often moods of poetic aloofness. His early training was received in the Art School in Columbus, Ohio. Later he worked with Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller and... Read full biography
Additional information from an exhibition catalog by Ten Thirty Gallery. Wray Manning's subject matter is varied - landscape, figure, still life, in both oil and watercolor. But whatever the subject, whatever the medium, his work is always imbued with a delicate and reticent fantasy. His colors are muted. He evokes nostalgic memories, often moods of poetic aloofness. His early training was received in the Art School in Columbus, Ohio. Later he worked with Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Walt Kuhn in New York. Since 1934 he has been a regular and most successful contributor to the Annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art, winning many prizes. A most successful commercial artist, he has however, never forgotten his early... Read full biography
Additional information from an exhibition catalog by Ten Thirty Gallery. Wray Manning's subject matter is varied - landscape, figure, still life, in both oil and watercolor. But whatever the subject, whatever the medium, his work is always imbued with a delicate and reticent fantasy. His colors are muted. He evokes nostalgic memories, often moods of poetic aloofness. His early training was received in the Art School in Columbus, Ohio. Later he worked with Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Walt Kuhn in New York. Since 1934 he has been a regular and most successful contributor to the Annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art, winning many prizes. A most successful commercial artist, he has however, never forgotten his early preoccupations. He increasingly finds his greatest outlet in the fine arts field. William M. M... Read full biography
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Biography from Butler Institute of American Art
Additional information from an exhibition catalog by Ten Thirty Gallery.
Wray Manning's subject matter is varied - landscape, figure, still life, in both oil and watercolor. But whatever the subject, whatever the medium, his work is always imbued with a delicate and reticent fantasy. His colors are muted. He evokes nostalgic memories, often moods of poetic aloofness.
His early training was received in the Art School in Columbus, Ohio. Later he worked with Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Walt Kuhn in New York. Since 1934 he has been a regular and most successful contributor to the Annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art, winning many prizes.
A most successful commercial artist, he has however, never forgotten his early preoccupations. He increasingly finds his greatest outlet in the fine arts field.
William M. MillikenBiography from Aspire Auctions, Cleveland
Active in Cleveland, Ohio as a landscape painter, Wray Manning was an award winner at The Cleveland Museum of Art's 1954 May Show. His work is in the permanent collection of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown.