Framed under 98% ultra-violet filtering, abrasion resistant acrylic.

Charcoal and watercolor sketches from two different pages in one of Flory's sketch books. Presumed to be sketches from his time oversea's during WWII. GF #718. Obtained directly from Flory's widow, Evelyn (through a gallery).

Born in Michigan in 1919, Gaylord Flory began his career as an artist in the shadow of the Great Depression. At the start of World War II, he enlisted in the armed services. While serving as a field officer, he continued drawing and painting, as circumstances allowed, and in 1942 his drawings from the front lines were featured in LIFE magazine.

By the early 1950s, Flory had won several coveted awards in juried competitions and had settled into life as an active member of the New York art scene. In the summers, he joined the colony of painters on Monhegan Island in Maine. To his work in landscape and still-life painting, he added an interest in portraiture and earned a number of significant commissions. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, he and his family traveled frequently to Hawaii, where he found the light and landscape hospitable to his style of painting.