Full Name: Gray, Christopher
Gender: male
Date Born: 1915
Home Country/ies: United States
Subject Area(s): French (culture or style) and Modern (style or period)
Career(s): educators
Overview
Scholar of French modernism and professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University. Gray received his Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation on the theories of Cubism in 1951. He published a version of his dissertation in 1953. In 1963 he completed a catalogue raisonné on the three-dimensional works of Gauguin, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin. His students included Francis V. O’Connor.
Selected Bibliography
[dissertation:] Cubist Aesthetic Theories. Harvard, 1951, pubished, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953; “Cezanne’s Use of Perspective.” College Art Journal 19, no. 1 (Autumn 1959): 54-64; “The Cubist Conception of Reality The Cubist Conception of Reality.” College Art Journal 13, no. 1 (Autumn 1953): 19-23; Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963.