About

Gray Foy (1922–2012) first came to public attention in 1946 when one of his drawings appeared in the pages of View, the premier American Surrealist magazine of the day. He was a consummate draftsman, and although the style of his drawings from this period displays the unmistakable influence of contemporaneous artists like Salvador Dalí and émigré Pavel Tchelitchew, the delicacy and intricacy of Foy’s line is so masterful that comparison to historical precedents such as Albrecht Dürer and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is more accurate. By the end of the 1940s, Foy would transition to depicting …