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Don Ray: A Retrospective
October 11, 2008 - February 15, 2009
From October
11, 2008 through February 15, 2009, the Panhandle-Plains Historical
Museum will present a retrospective of the work of Don Ray (1937-2006).
This exhibition was already in
the works when Don Ray passed away on 27 September 2006 after an extended
illness. The exhibition will include works in oil, watercolor, and bronze
and span Ray's entire career from the late 1950s through 2006. (right:
Don Ray (1937-2006), No More Forever)
Reared on a ranch near Clarendon, Texas, Ray focused on the subjects he grew up with. Working in bronze and oil, he concentrated his work on the landscape and historical events of the Panhandle-Plains region and on Civil War history. Ray studied at West Texas State University and with Olive Vandruff and later taught at West Texas State.
He exhibited widely in the Southwest and with the Hudson Valley Art Association, White Plains, New York; Abercrombie and Fitch, New York; Mountain Oyster Club, Tucson; the Nita Stewart Haley Library, Midland, Texas; and the Panhandle-Plains Invitational Western Art Show and Sale.
Ray's work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections as well as public collections in the Panhandle and the Haley Library; the George Phippen Museum of Western Art, Prescott, Arizona; and the National Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock. His work has been featured in Persimmon Hill, Western Horseman, Southwest Art, and the Dallas Morning News's Scene.
The artist was a long-time member and supporter of the Museum which held a Don Ray exhibition in 1987.
Wall text and labels from the exhibition
In Memoriam
Don Ray (1937-2006)
Reared on a ranch near Clarendon, Texas, Ray focused on the subjects he grew up with. Working in bronze and oil, he concentrated his work on the landscape and historical events of the Panhandle-Plains region and on Civil War history. Ray studied at West Texas State University and with Olive Vandruff and later taught at West Texas State. He exhibited widely in the Southwest and with the Hudson Valley Art Association, White Plains, New York; Abercrombie and Fitch, New York; Mountain Oyster Club, Tucson; the Nita Stewart Haley Library, Midland, Texas; and the Panhandle-Plains Invitational Western Art Show and Sale. Ray's work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections as well as public collections in the Panhandle and the Haley Library; the George Phippen Museum of Western Art, Prescott, Arizona; and the National Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock. His work has been featured in Persimmon Hill, Western Horseman, Southwest Art, and the Dallas Morning News's Scene. The artist was a long-time member and supporter of the Museum which held a Don Ray exhibition in 1987. Don Ray passed away on 27 September 2006.
(above: Don Ray (1937-2006), When Word Was Bond)
(above: Don Ray (1937-2006), Winter in the Canyon)
For the exhibition Don Ray: A Retrospective the Museum created a YouTube page named PPHMConnectionCast which contains a 18-minute 2-part tour of the exhibition by Michael Grauer, curator.
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