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Lechner Curates Exhibit on Cleve Gray
Posted 9/28/2005
George Lechner, adjunct faculty member and reference assistant in Mortensen Library, was selected to be guest curator for the exhibit "Cleve Gray: From Drawing to Painting" at the New Britain Museum of American Art.
The exhibit, which features 50 of the artist's works on paper, opens today (Sept. 28) and is scheduled to run through Nov. 27.
Cleve Gray, who died this past December at the age of 86, was a noted abstract artist whose paintings are found in many museums and collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Lechner, who was Gray's longtime friend and a contributing writer for the book Cleve Gray, published by Harry N. Abrams in 1998, will give a lecture on the artist's life and work at the formal opening of the exhibit on Sunday, Oct. 2.
Lechner is an adjunct faculty member for the All-University Curriculum (AUC) course, “The Italian Renaissance.”
On Tuesday, Oct. 11, Lechner and the distinguished writer Francine du Plessix Gray, the artist's widow, will make a joint presentation at the New Britain Museum as part of the University of Hartford's President's College. Francine du Plessix Gray is the author of the current bestseller Them: A Memoir of Parents, published by Penguin Press, and is a member of the Mortensen Library Board of Visitors.
Both Cleve and Francine Gray are past recipients of honorary doctorates from the University of Hartford. Cleve Gray was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts in 1992, and Francine du Plessix Gray received an honorary doctor of humane letters in 1991.
Details and images of the exhibit may be found at the New Britain Museum of American Art website.
For more information, contact Lechner at 768-4142 or glechner@hartford.edu.
The exhibit, which features 50 of the artist's works on paper, opens today (Sept. 28) and is scheduled to run through Nov. 27.
Cleve Gray, who died this past December at the age of 86, was a noted abstract artist whose paintings are found in many museums and collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Lechner, who was Gray's longtime friend and a contributing writer for the book Cleve Gray, published by Harry N. Abrams in 1998, will give a lecture on the artist's life and work at the formal opening of the exhibit on Sunday, Oct. 2.
Lechner is an adjunct faculty member for the All-University Curriculum (AUC) course, “The Italian Renaissance.”
On Tuesday, Oct. 11, Lechner and the distinguished writer Francine du Plessix Gray, the artist's widow, will make a joint presentation at the New Britain Museum as part of the University of Hartford's President's College. Francine du Plessix Gray is the author of the current bestseller Them: A Memoir of Parents, published by Penguin Press, and is a member of the Mortensen Library Board of Visitors.
Both Cleve and Francine Gray are past recipients of honorary doctorates from the University of Hartford. Cleve Gray was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts in 1992, and Francine du Plessix Gray received an honorary doctor of humane letters in 1991.
Details and images of the exhibit may be found at the New Britain Museum of American Art website.
For more information, contact Lechner at 768-4142 or glechner@hartford.edu.
