Ray Stanford Strong was an American painter from Corvallis, Oregon.
11 Facts About Ray Strong
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Ray Strong associated with the New Deal muralists in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Ray Strong was born in Corvallis, Oregon, the youngest of three brothers.
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Ray Strong was educated at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and the Art Students League of New York.
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Ray Strong later founded the San Francisco Art Students League and participated in the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.
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Ray Strong wanted to travel to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War but was persuaded by his friend Ansel Adams to remain in the United States and paint.
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Ray Strong's artwork includes the oil on canvas mural titled San Gabriel County in the San Gabriel, California post office, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, and completed in 1938.
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In 1953, Ray Strong served as the President of the Marin Society of Arts.
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Ray Strong had a commitment to the environment and was part of the Oak Group which opposed the encroachment of the oil industry onto the local landscape.
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Ray Strong's painting Indian Summer II is in the collection of the Oakland Museum of California.
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Ray Strong continued to paint in his studio, close to the entrance to Sequoia National Park, until shortly before he died, age 101 on July 3,2006.