Take a scenic journey with this 18" x 42" ORIGINAL artwork by legendary artist Carl Bray, featuring a sunset road between two mountains. Let your walls come to life with this one-of-a-kind piece that will add a touch of whimsy and wonder to any room.
About the Artist:
Born in Oklahoma in 1917, Bray relocated to Indio, California in 1936 to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad. He and Luella Bray raised four kids, living as neighbors to the village of the Kavinish natives. Carl painted any time he was not working his day job down at the railroad. These art works display the beauty of Californian desert and skyscapes, their flora and fauna, locomotives, and the natives of Indian Wells and Taos. His paintings have received countless accolades and in time Bray even headed the Palm Springs Art Association. Carl’s home was even made a historical monument.
Eventually he was honored with a city sanctioned holiday in his name, known as Carl Bray Day, and his paintings still hang on the walls of the Indian Wells City Hall to this day. He has been featured in magazines, honored by city officials, and has been held in high esteem by the Southern California desert art community. Although Carl is no longer living, his legacy continues to be that of one of the most prolific artists to have ever painted in the Southern California region.
Artist Bio:
Remembered as the Grandpa Moses of the Desert, Impressionist Carl G. Bray cultivated and became emblematic of the western desert painting style of Southern California. Although he was famously known for his smoke tree paintings, Bray explored many subjects in his art from locomotives to indigenous peoples.
Carl traveled annually from Southern California to Taos, New Mexico where he would take in new inspiration and scenery for a new crop of paintings that he would continuously be producing. He often garnered his inspiration by driving through country sides and backroads, while taking thousands of high-quality photographs, that he would later use to paint with. These very same film slides that inspired Carl’s art all those years ago are still being used today to inspire Carl’s nephew’s paintings; thus, creating an art legacy that spans over 100 years of paintings derived from the same original inspired photographs.
Take a scenic journey with this 18" x 42" ORIGINAL artwork by legendary artist Carl Bray, featuring a sunset road between two mountains. Let your walls come to life with this one-of-a-kind piece that will add a touch of whimsy and wonder to any room.
About the Artist:
Born in Oklahoma in 1917, Bray relocated to Indio, California in 1936 to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad. He and Luella Bray raised four kids, living as neighbors to the village of the Kavinish natives. Carl painted any time he was not working his day job down at the railroad. These art works display the beauty of Californian desert and skyscapes, their flora and fauna, locomotives, and the natives of Indian Wells and Taos. His paintings have received countless accolades and in time Bray even headed the Palm Springs Art Association. Carl’s home was even made a historical monument.
Eventually he was honored with a city sanctioned holiday in his name, known as Carl Bray Day, and his paintings still hang on the walls of the Indian Wells City Hall to this day. He has been featured in magazines, honored by city officials, and has been held in high esteem by the Southern California desert art community. Although Carl is no longer living, his legacy continues to be that of one of the most prolific artists to have ever painted in the Southern California region.
Artist Bio:
Remembered as the Grandpa Moses of the Desert, Impressionist Carl G. Bray cultivated and became emblematic of the western desert painting style of Southern California. Although he was famously known for his smoke tree paintings, Bray explored many subjects in his art from locomotives to indigenous peoples.
Carl traveled annually from Southern California to Taos, New Mexico where he would take in new inspiration and scenery for a new crop of paintings that he would continuously be producing. He often garnered his inspiration by driving through country sides and backroads, while taking thousands of high-quality photographs, that he would later use to paint with. These very same film slides that inspired Carl’s art all those years ago are still being used today to inspire Carl’s nephew’s paintings; thus, creating an art legacy that spans over 100 years of paintings derived from the same original inspired photographs.