Jack Lorimer Gray

Artist Bio: Jack Lorimer Gray (1927-1981)

Jack Lorimer Gray was one of the best marine painters in Canada in the 20th century. He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art, and at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under Arthur Lismer. Jack was a good sailor and draftsman and became known for his detailed, realistic, paintings of seascapes, ships, and particularly the in-shore fishery on Canada’s East Coast. Unlike many other marine artists, Jack was a sailor himself and knew how a boat sits in the water.

Gray was represented in his earlier years by Kennedy Galleries in New York and painted a series of large paintings depicting contemporary Marine activities around New York City. Later, in 1951, Dr. Stern of the Dominion Gallery in Montreal, and added Jack to the stable of artists represented by Dominion Gallery.