Salton Sea Mountains
Artist
Carl Glen Bray
(1917 - 2011)
Date1950s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of The Hilbert Collection
Object number2023.058
DescriptionCarl Glen Bray was born in Oklahoma in 1917. In the early 1930s, he came to Los Angeles and joined the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, where he attended art classes. He moved to the desert community of Indio in 1936 and got a job with the Southern Pacific Railroad.In 1956, Bray and his wife opened an art gallery called the Smoke Tree Gallery. It was popular with a group of desert artists who came to be known as the Smoke Tree School, so-called because their favored subject was the distinctive desert tree.
A prolific painter, Bray is believed to have completed more than 13,000 paintings. Most of these were desert scenes with his trademark smoke trees. Carl Bray died in Banning in 2011 at the age of ninety-four.
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