ARTIST: George Edward Kruger Grey (British, 1880 - 1943)
NAME: Country Landscape
MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board.
CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 30 inches / 45 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: 23 x 34 inches / 58 x 86 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
NAME VARIANTS: George Edward Kruger Gray
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
George Edward Kruger Gray (Grey was an English artist, best remembered for his designs of coinage and stained glass windows.He got his tertiary education at the Bath School of Art, today Bath School of Art and Design a department of the Bath Spa University. There he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art* in London. Here he graduated with the Diploma in Design in his birth name George Edward Kruger.During the First World War George Kruger Grey served with the Artists Rifles, and a camouflage* unit of the Royal Engineers. Here he was hiding military items, and made dummy objects to irritate the enemy forces.In 1918, after George's marriage to Frances Audrey Gordon Grey, he changed his name to George Kruger Grey.After the war he carried on with his career of an artist. 1923 he exhibited his numismatic works at the Royal Academy of Arts. He won a great reputation, and orders to design the Royal coinage for Great Britain.George Kruger Gray was not specialized to the design of numismatic items. He also designed and made led-glass windows for churches, universities etc., illustrated books and made posters, and cartoons.In 1938 he became a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)George Edward Kruger Grey died in Chichester, West Sussex, England on 2 May 1943.