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Born 1946 Waterville, Maine. Known for: Landscape painting, mountain views.
Alan Bray Biography. March 29, 2006. Alan Bray's casein-on-panel landscapes are cool, elegant, and blessedly devoid of prettiness… [They]evoke nature's majesty but drain away its wildness, suggesting... Read full biography
Alan Bray Biography. March 29, 2006. Alan Bray's casein-on-panel landscapes are cool, elegant, and blessedly devoid of prettiness… [They]evoke nature's majesty but drain away its wildness, suggesting something of the poise and repose of Giotto or Mantegna. -The New Yorker. This is praise that Alan... Read full biography
Alan Bray Biography. March 29, 2006. Alan Bray's casein-on-panel landscapes are cool, elegant, and blessedly devoid of prettiness… [They]evoke nature's majesty but drain away its wildness, suggesting something of the poise and repose of Giotto or Mantegna. -The New Yorker. This is praise that Alan Bray, who has studied and painted the central Maine highlands for more than forty years, comes by honestly. Ironically, it took an extended sojourn in Florence, Italy, to reveal the depth of his bond... Read full biography
Alan Bray Biography. March 29, 2006. Alan Bray's casein-on-panel landscapes are cool, elegant, and blessedly devoid of prettiness… [They]evoke nature's majesty but drain away its wildness, suggesting something of the poise and repose of Giotto or Mantegna. -The New Yorker. This is praise that Alan Bray, who has studied and painted the central Maine highlands for more than forty years, comes by honestly. Ironically, it took an extended sojourn in Florence, Italy, to reveal the depth of his bond to his native landscape and to develop an art The New Yorker has described as "mediations on landscape, rather than attempts to open a window on the world.". Alan Bray was born in Waterville, Maine, on January 12, 1946, but he grew up in Monson, a... Read full biography
Alan Bray Biography. March 29, 2006. Alan Bray's casein-on-panel landscapes are cool, elegant, and blessedly devoid of prettiness… [They]evoke nature's majesty but drain away its wildness, suggesting something of the poise and repose of Giotto or Mantegna. -The New Yorker. This is praise that Alan Bray, who has studied and painted the central Maine highlands for more than forty years, comes by honestly. Ironically, it took an extended sojourn in Florence, Italy, to reveal the depth of his bond to his native landscape and to develop an art The New Yorker has described as "mediations on landscape, rather than attempts to open a window on the world.". Alan Bray was born in Waterville, Maine, on January 12, 1946, but he grew up in Monson, a small slate-quarrying town set in the northern reaches of the Appalachians. It was here, hiking and camping with lik... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Italy
Art School
- •Art Institute of Boston, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950