biografia di Robert Donald RAY (1925)

Birth place: Denver, CO

Addresses: Taos, NM (1952-on)

Profession: Painter, sculptor, printmaker, gallery owner

Studied: Drake Univ.; Univ. Southern California, B.F.A.(cum laude), 1950; Centro Estudios Universitarios, Mexico City, Mexico, M.A.(magna cum laude) with J. Fern·ndez.

Exhibited: The West--80 Contemporaries, Univ. Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, 1967; solo show, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO, 1968; Three Cultures--Three Dimensions, 1969 & Southwestern Artists Biennial, 1970, Mus. New Mexico; 73rd Ann. Exhib. Western Art, Denver Art Mus., 1971. Awards: Purchase award, Ball State Teachers College, 1959; first prize for sculpture, Mus. New Mexico, 1969; graphics award, Taos Art Assn., NM, 1972.

Member: Taos Art Assn.

Work: Baltimore Mus. Art, MD; Brooklyn Mus. Art, NY; Denver Art Mus., CO; Mus. New Mexico, Santa Fe; Columbia Mus. Art, SC.

Comments: Served in WWII. A grant from the Wurlitzer Foundation brought him to Taos in 1954. Dealer: Mission Gallery, Taos, NM.

Sources: WW73; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 390. Fels, Compression and expansion in the works of Blackburn and Ray (1972); Harmsen, Harmsen's Western Americana (Northland, 1972); article, "La Galeria Escondida" in Artforum (n.d.)