Cleve Gray was a painter admired for his large-scale abstract compositions. He was born in New York City, NY, and lived in Warren, CT from 1949 to the end of his life. He studied art with Antonia Nell (pupil of George Bellows) and Bartlett Hayes, and graduated from Princeton with a degree in Art and Archeology. His work is held in many public collections, such as the Columbus Museum of Art (OH), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Honolulu Academy of the Arts (HI), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA and Houston, TX), New Britain Museum of American Art (CT), and Norton Gallery of Art (West Palm Beach, FL), among numerous others.