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Gray Foy: Drawings 1941-1975 (Hardcover)
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Gray Foy: Drawings 1941-1975 (Hardcover)
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This elegant and distinguished book showcases the unique and
mesmerizing art of mid-century American artist, Gray Foy. Long
eclipsed from public and private view, this large cache of drawings
was discovered after Foy's death, mostly hidden in drawers and
closets. The five-year effort to prepare the astonishing discovery
for publication culminates in this stunning volume of drawings
whose rare beauty will appeal to cognoscenti and general readers
alike. Born in 1922 in Dallas, Foy spent his youth in Los Angeles
and went on to study art at Southern Methodist University in Texas
and Columbia University in New York. His drawings appeared in
numerous group exhibitions (including several Whitney Annuals), and
he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Foy's drawings are executed
with a draftsmanship whose meticulously detailed qualities
challenge the viewer's visual acuity. His early work, related to
both Magic Realism and Surrealism, conveys affinities with artists
as varied as Salvador Dali and M.C. Escher, and is characterized by
complexly interwoven compositions in which human figures, flora and
fauna, and terrains and interiors morph into vivid dreamscapes. His
mature drawings focus on botanical and geological forms in the
process of transformation, metaphorically suggestive of the passage
of time and the mutability of perception. There has been renewed
interest in Gray Foy's art as a result of a 2004 article in the New
York Times by Steve Martin about the artist and his 1942
masterpiece, Dimensions, which Martin acquired and donated to the
Museum of Modern Art. Now for the first time, Gray Foy's work has
been collected in Gray Foy: Drawings 1941-1975, which includes
sixty-one full-color plates, an exhaustive chronology, and a
selection of Foy's commercial illustrations for book jackets,
magazines, and record album covers.
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